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,...

The existence of a new European VAT regulation of the e-commerce, to be applied since the next 1st July, is a recurrent topic not only in specialized publications but in everyday medias. This can be easily explained by the fact that, in a higher or lower degree, the new rules will have implications for most companies.   Indeed, as an outcome of the democratization of technology and the consolidation of on-line distribution platforms and other e-commerce alternatives, it is not unusual that small...

The portal of the Spanish Tax Agency (AEAT) has published a new section where all the information about the new VAT regime for electronic commerce is gathered. As has been widely commented in the media, as of July 1, 2021, all member states must have transposed the new special one-stop-shop regimes provided for in Council Directive 2017/2455 into their regulations. The Spanish regulations carrying out this transposition are in process. The new OSS regimes are of optional application by the compa...