When doing imports into Spain, the corresponding VAT is liquidated by Customs and is to be paid before the goods are cleared to free circulation except for the case that the import qualifies for any exemption (i.e. the so called regime 42 where the import is followed by an intracommunity supply or the goods are affected to an special Customs regime).   Since the recovery of import VAT is to be obtained by way of compensation at the corresponding periodical VAT return, this procedure involves a f...

Non-resident companies which, although operating without a permanent establishment, are obliged to file Spanish VAT returns because of their operative and, so, must register for Spanish VAT purposes (what is known as “direct registration”),   This is normally the case when such companies incur intra community acquisitions in Spain and, besides recapitulative returns and, if applicable, intrastate returns, they would have to file quarterly and yearly summary VAT returns and keep Spanish VAT regis...

I.      Background   I.1.   E-invoicing obligation   Before the publication of Law 18/2022 of 28 September regulating the creation and growth of enterprises that modified article 2bis of Law 56/2007 of 28 December of Measures to Promote de Information Society, there was not a general obligation to issue electronic invoices, except for transactions between companies and the Spanish administrations or their public bodies (the, so called, B2G operations).   This obligation does not extend to other ...

  I. Background   As a rule, notwithstanding the special provisions that may be applicable for certain territories - Basque Country, Navarre, the Canary Islands, Ceuta and Melilla -companies operating in Spain must comply with the Spanish VAT invoicing regulations when being the appointed taxable subject for this tax (or, if not applicable, its equivalent local sales tax).   Except for the Basque Country and Navarre (where there is a special e-invoicing regulations applicable to companies domici...

As a co-author, I am proud to announce that the European VAT Handbook 2021/2022 is available with the following contains: ? Detailed essential VAT information in Europe ? 30 countries ? 624 pages   Given the profile of the professional that contribute to the book, the topics thar are covered and the way in which they are treated are eminently practical and aim to point out to those aspects that, according to experience, need to specifically considered from a VAT point of view  by those companies...

The so called “Suministro Inmediato de Información” (“Immediate Information Supply”) or SII, consists of the obligation to file electronically through the website of the Spanish Tax Agency (AEAT), in almost a “real time” basis, the data for all the transactions that must be included in the Spanish VAT registers.   This obligation affects those companies operating in Spain which, due to their operative, become taxable subjects for Spanish VAT purposes and must file VAT returns in a monthly basis,...