Regulatory Analysis
Under the approved amendments, the new compliance deadlines are as follows: 1 January 2027: Mandatory compliance for taxpayers subject to Corporate Income Tax (Impuesto sobre Sociedades) 1 July 2027: Mandatory compliance for all other obligated taxpayers, including self-employed professionals and entrepreneurs subject to Personal Income Tax (IRPF) The deadline of 29 July 2025 for software […]
The Bizkaia Provincial Council (Diputación Foral de Bizkaia) has published Decreto Foral 100/2025 of 13 November, introducing changes to tax compliance obligations including new exemptions from TicketBAI requirements for certain entities. TicketBAI Exemptions for Non-Profits and Exempt Entities Effective 1 January 2026, entities with total or partial Corporate Income Tax exemptions and registered non-profit organisations […]
On 2 December 2025, the Spanish Government announced a further one-year postponement of the VERI*FACTU certified billing system deadlines. The measure was announced by President Pedro Sánchez during a radio interview on RAC1 and subsequently confirmed by Ministry of Finance (Hacienda) sources to press agencies. The postponement forms part of a Royal Decree-Law (Real Decreto-Ley) […]
Today, the Spanish Government published the Ministerial Order HAC/1177/2024 in the Spanish Official Gazette. This Ministerial Order sets out the technical, functional, and content requirements that must be adopted by the electronic systems and programs that support billing processes. The Ministerial Order also standardizes the formats of the billing records, as approved by Royal Decree […]
Pursuant to Royal Decree-Law 4/2024 of June 26, 2024, the temporary zero VAT rate on basic food items such as bread, flour, milk, cheese, eggs, fruits, vegetables, legumes, tubers, and cereals is extended until September 30, 2024. Olive oil will also be added to the list of basic items subject to the zero VAT rate […]
As announced by the Spanish Ministry of Finance on December 27, 2023, the temporary zero VAT rate on basic food items such as bread, flour, milk, cheese, eggs, fruits, vegetables, legumes, tubers, and cereals has been extended until June 30, 2024. These measures seek to continue making consumer shopping baskets cheaper through the first half […]
The Spanish government is pursuing various routes for digitizing tax controls, including introducing software requirements on the billing system. Back in February 2022, a Draft Royal Decree was published establishing invoicing and billing software requirements to secure Spanish antifraud regulations. This ensures that billing software meet the legal requirements of integrity, conservation, accessibility, legibility, traceability […]
Pursuant to Decree Law 4/2023, the zero-rate VAT rate that temporarily applied to supplies of face masks and gloves expired on September 30, 2023. The decree can be found here (in Spanish).
The Bizkaia Tax Authority has published information regarding a possible postponement of the Batuz obligation for small and medium-sized companies, micro-enterprises, self-employed workers, small-sized cooperatives, or non-profit entities. A draft law is under discussion for this purpose. As it is still a draft, it needs to be officially published in order to become effective. The […]
Pursuant to Royal Decree-Law 5/2023 of June 28, 2023, the temporary zero VAT rate on basic food items such as bread, flour, milk, cheese, eggs, fruits, vegetables, legumes, tubers, and cereals has been extended until December 31, 2023. Please note that the temporary 4% reduced rate applied to the supply of face masks has not […]
Pursuant to Decree Law 15/2022, the zero-rate VAT rate that temporarily applied to supplies of face masks and gloves in the Canary Islands is extended until June 30, 2023. The decree can be found here (in Spanish).
As announced by the Spanish Ministry of Finance on 27 December 2022 and pursuant to Royal Decree-Law 20/2022, the reduced VAT rates applied to supplies of face masks and electricity have been extended. Surgical face masks will maintain the 4% VAT rate until 30 June 2023, and electricity will maintain the 5% VAT rate until […]
The AEAT updated the technical documentation for the SII. Changes introduced by the new documentation will be in force in the production environment from 1 January 2023. Among the changes, the value AJ was added to the ledger of issued invoices for adjustments of the benefit’s margin and new validations and errors associated with this […]
According to this Law, not yet published in the Official Gazette, all entrepreneurs and professionals must issue, send and receive electronic invoices in their business relationships with other businessmen and professionals. Additionally, the recipient and the sender of electronic invoices must provide information on the status of the invoices. The Government will have 6 months […]
The Spanish Tax Authority AEAT has published a draft resolution establishing the requirements that must be adopted by computer or electronic systems and programs that support the billing processes of businesses and professionals. According to the draft regulation, taxpayers must have their operational computer systems compliant with the new requirements as of January 1, 2024. […]
The Spanish Tax Administration (AEAT) recently released a comprehensive set of files, tools, and documents necessary for the full implementation of the Immediate Information Remittance System (SII Version 1.0). As a final test step before actual go-live, AEAT announced that from June 21 through June 29 taxpayers and solution providers may begin submitting SII reports […]
Spain has issued Ministerial Order HFP/2017, which establishes the technical requirements for the implementation of the Immediate Remittance of Information system, locally known as SII. According to this new order, the effective date of the mandate is July 1, 2017. The order officially describes the information that should be sent to the Spanish tax authorities for […]