In the middle of the final summer holidays and with the return to school very close, families begin to prepare for the new 2025/2026 school year, with an expense in material and textbooks that has not stopped growing in recent years and that, according to the Autonomous Community in which it is resided, it could be impervious.
Deductions for the return to school 2025/2026: You can recover up to 100% of what was spent on textbooks
Thus, while in Aragon it is possible to deduce all the amounts satisfied for the purchase of textbooks and school supplies, taxpayers cannot discount any expenditure from the return to school in other places such as Castilla y León, Galicia, the Basque Country, Catalunya and Navarra, for example.
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Some deductions, of course, that can be a great relief for many families, since in some cases “you can recover up to 100% of what was spent on textbooks,” they recall in Taxdown, a platform specialized in the income statement.
We talked about the fact that for this return to school the families spent only in textbooks between 150 and 250 euros per child, depending on the course and the autonomous community, as well as between 60 and 90 euros more for each student in terms of backpacks, notebooks, cases and stationery, according to the OCU. As the organization states, the cost of textbooks is higher in ESO and Baccalaureate and much cheaper in children and primary.
In most communities, the limit to deduct around 100 euros
However, and according to the data published by the Spanish Association of Fiscal Advisors (AEDAF) and by the Tax Agency, this year, almost a dozen autonomous communities offer deductions in income for the expenses that families support for the return to the school of their children.
Normally, these deductions usually depend on each territory, the benefits declared by the autonomous and by the number of children it has. In most communities, the deduction limit usually is around 100 euros although in some as the Balearic Islands can amount to 220 euros.
It is worth mentioning, however, that in all these autonomous communities it is possible to deduce in the income statement the expenses related to the schooling of the children in the face of this return to school 2025/2026, but that yes: always keeping the supporters. Although the necessary conditions to take advantage of the reduction are not always identical, they are available in Aragon, Asturias, Andalucía, Baleares, Castilla-La Mancha, Extremadura and Madrid.
- Aragon. The Aragonese community allows the total cost of textbooks to be disgraded, according to the Tax Agency’s website. In the case of large families, the limit will be 75 euros per child. There are also deductions in the rest of the school supplies, except electronic devices
- Asturias allows you to completely disgrace the textbooks in the IRPF. In the case of large families, a maximum of 150 euros will be discounted per child if the declaration is joint, and 75 euros if it is individual.
- Andalusia allows 15% to be deducted in school or strange school and computer teaching. The maximum is 150 euros a year for each child, as Hacienda explains.
- Balearic Islands: The islands can completely break up in the IRPF the price of textbooks, with a maximum of 220 euros per son.
- Castilla-La Mancha. Manchego can also completely deduct the price of textbooks, in addition to 15% in the extracurricular classes of languages, reinforcement activities, access to new technologies. It also allows the expenses of study and residence to be deduced outside the family municipality, in the event that the town in which the son resides does not offer that teaching.
- Extremadura allows 15 euros to be deduced in the purchase of school material for each descendant to families with mandatory school -age children.
- Madrid. Madrid can be deducted in the IRPF for 15% of school expenses, 10% in language teaching and 5% in the purchase of the school uniform, as reflected on the website of the Tax Agency.
The school dining room can only be developed in the Canary Islands
For its part, it is worth highlighting the case of the dining rooms. And, for now, the school dining room cannot be developed, except for the Canary Islands. Nor will they be transportation or other services offered by the educational center by not being strictly linked to teaching.
The only one that does is the Canary Islands, where 100% of the amounts satisfied in the tax period by school canteens are possible. The maximum limit will be 133 euros for the first child or adopted, and additional 66 euros for each of the remaining descendants.