Royal Law-Decree 3/2020 of 5 February has been published at the Official Gazette of 5 February 2020 (the RDL) in order to, among other European regulations, transpose to the Spanish legislation Council Directive 2018/1910 and Council Implementing Regulation 2018/1912,. As regards VAT the RDL so transposes the so called “quick fixes”, namely, amendments to the Council Directive 2006/112/EC on the common system of value added tax (the VAT Directive) with the aim to simplify the regime of intracomm...

The European Commission has issued a proposal where the Council of the European Union is invited to authorise the opening of negotiations for a new partnership with the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, to nominate the Commission as Union negotiator and to address directives to the negotiator and designate a special committee in consultation with which the negotiations must be conducted.

The State Tax Administration Agency (AEAT) has announced that as of February 3 a new help service for model 303 called “Pre303” will be available in the Procedures section of the electronic office of its website. This service is addressed to a part of the taxpayers who are currently obliged to keep their VAT records through the Electronic Headquarters of the AEAT (the so-called "Immediate Supply of Information" SII).   Specifically, the affected taxpayers would be those registered in the Monthly...

From the VAT point of view Spain has territorial specificities arising from the existence of autonomous regions with regulatory powers in indirect taxation. This creates different scenarios varying from territories where the VAT does not apply at all (Ceuta and Melilla) or is substituted by a similar regional indirect tax (the IGIC of the Canary Islands) to those where the VAT is applied with certain peculiarities (the Basque Country and Navarra).   Foreign companies operating in Spain need to b...

In the Official Journal of the European Union (OJUE) of November 29, 2019, Council Directive (EU) 2019/1995 of November 21, 2019 is published amending Directive 2006/112 / EC as far as it concerns the provisions regarding distance sales of goods and certain national deliveries of goods. This rule addresses to certain problems posed by the changes introduced in the Directive 2006/112 / CE regulating VAT (VAT Directive) by Council Directive (EU) 2017/2455, in relation to the tax obligations arisin...

En el Diario Oficial de la Unión Europea (DOUE) de 2 de diciembre de 2019 aparece publicada la Directiva (UE) 2019/1995 del Consejo de 21 de noviembre de 2019 por la que se modifica la Directiva 2006/112/CE en lo que respecta a las disposiciones relativas a las ventas a distancia de bienes y a ciertas entregas nacionales de bienes. Dicha norma viene a solucionar determinados problemas planteados por las modificaciones introducidas en la Directiva 2006/112/CE reguladora del IVA (Directiva IVA), e...