The Ministerial Order HAC/1177/2024 that develops the technical aspects required for the invoicing software used by companies so they are compliant with Royal Decree 1007/2023, of 5 October (the, so called,  Veri*factu Ordinance) has been published in Today Official Gazette (accessible at the link: Disposición 22138 del BOE núm. 260 de 2024 ). With the publication of the Order, the 9 months dead-line for software developers and marketers so to adapt their invoicing applications to the new techni...

 I. A change of paradigm of the internal VAT management function   It is common that multinational companies which operate globally incur VAT reporting obligations in more than one country. When this happen, because of the different reporting parameters and technologies required by each jurisdiction, being able to remain compliant is a complex task and requires a flexibility which may not always exist, especially where the ERP, IT, financial and VAT reporting functions are centralized at group l...

As the fight against tax fraud becomes a critical issue and top ranks in the agendas of Governments around the world, there are an increasing number of tax Administrations which see immediate access to data as a solution an introduce in their local tax systems obligations known as Continuous Transaction Controls (CTC) or transaction-based reporting. These obligations may adopt the form of compulsory use of homologated e-invoicing solutions or transactions list reporting, which must comply with t...

  Next 16, 17 and 18 February 2022 we will assist to the TTL Travel VAT Conference 2022 (TTL TVC 2022) to be held at the Robinson Club Cala Serena Mallorca. This is one of the yearly events organized by Tax, Tourism and Law (TTL), a network we form part integrated by lawyers and VAT advisors from different countrieswho provide especialized advise to companies of the tourism sector. The aim of the conference is to joint representatives of the different stakeholders of this sector (European instit...

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...

As much publicized in the media, since the 1st July 2021 there is a new scenario of the VAT treatment of the B2C distant sales of goods of companies operating from outside the European Union when selling to final consumers in any of the 27 member states.   This represents a drastic change in the previous existing status quo where most of these sales benefited from the, now eliminated, exemption for small parcels under 22 Euros, which created an unfair competition as regards the European companie...