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Treaty between Spain and US – Spanish National Court holds payments for software subject to 10% withholding tax (general rate for "other royalties")

|Treaty Development|Spain; United States
Spain; United States


The Spanish National Court gave its decision on 15 April 2010 (recently published) in case number 440/2008. Details of the decision are summarized below.

(a) Facts. During the years 2003, 2004 and 2005, a Spanish software company made several payments to its US parent company for a non-exclusive license to copy and distribute software programs (collectively, "paym…


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