Passport / Visa

Passport

Please ensure your passport has at least 6 months’ validity.
Kindly renew your passport if the validity period falls before 29 September 2023.

Visa Eligibility

VAT Refund

The standard VAT rate in Spain is 21%. 

You are eligible for a VAT Refund before leaving Spain if you meet all the following requirements:

• Your permanent residence is outside of the European Union
• You must have all the completed forms and documents required:
  1. A completed Tax-Free Form
  2. Original receipts of the goods purchased
  3. The goods purchased
  4. Passport
  5. Your flight boarding passes

Procedure of VAT Refund
1. Ask for and fill in the Global Blue Tax-Free form in the shops where you buy your purchases.

2. The shop may ask you to provide proof that you are a visitor to the EU. Please have your passport or other identity documents ready in case.

3. Before boarding on your day of departure, proceed to Customs with the forms, your passport or ID document, the goods purchased and your boarding pass.
Goods should be kept available for inspection, unused and with the original receipts.

4. Proceed to a desk or office displaying a Global Blue logo – some currency exchanges have this also.

1. Present your stamped and completed Tax Free Form and travel document to receive the refund in cash or to your card. Once at the airport, you will need to present at the TRS counter. You will still need to attend a TRS facility with your tax invoice. This does not submit your claim, but it speeds up the process.
2. Claim in person by showing your passport, boarding pass and original invoices to the TRS on the day of departure more than 30 minutes before departure at the airport.