As commented in former entries, regardless of the declaration of alarm status in the country by the Spanish Government no specific postponement measures have been adopted as regards the filing of the periodical VAT returns or its payment for the duration of the COVID crisis which threatens to be long. Neither the extension of such status until the next 12th of April decided last Saturday nor the decision to stop any non essential activity adopted on Sunday have modified the described taxpayers s...

Although, as we mentioned in a former entry, no especial provisions have been adopted by the central Government as regards the extension of deadlines for the filing and payment of VAT returns, it must be remembered that companies operating in certain Spanish Autonomous Regions having full competences for the management of indirect taxes having to be declared in said territories, would benefit from the provisions that such regional administration may have adopted as a result of the COVID-19 crisi...

The Council of Ministers held Today has agreed to request from the Congress of Deputies authorization to extend the State of Alarm declared by Royal Decree 463/2020, of March 14, until 00:00 hours on April 12 and will be subject to the same conditions established in Royal Decree 463/2020, of March 14 (as modified by Royal Decree 465/2020, of March 17). No specific additional measures have been adopted as regards the postponement of the deadlines to file and pay the VAT returns which remain the s...

Representantes aduaneros buscan un nuevo reglamento para el comercio electrónico The battle over the VAT one-stop-shop

Disruption is the title of an interesting book by the Canadian author Sthéphane Mallard about the huge changes resulting from the digital revolution that, affecting in a first instance the technological field, will eventually reshape drastically the world that we know. The ideas the book present us have acquired a deeper sense now that when first read at the date of publication two years ago. Or. better said, revisited now, they make us more aware of the deep implications of the changes that the...

NI DTORA 01/2020 de 16 de marzo, por la que se dictan instrucciones derivadas de la declaración de estado de alarma (RD 463/2020 de 14 de marzo