US EditionAssociation of Self-Employed Workers Reports Government to EC for Refusing to Apply VAT Exemptions for Low-Turnover Freelancers
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The main employer of the self-employed, ATA, has denounced Spain to the European Commission for not transposing a European directive that would allow exemption from VAT to be passed on to self-employed employees of smaller size. Specifically, the Community legislation in question establishes the possibility that the self-employed who invoice less than 85,000 euros per year will be exempt from passing on, liquidating and declaring this tax. Somet…
The collective denounces an accumulation of bureaucratic burdens, fewer social rights than wage earners and a tax discrimination that has led the National Federation of Associations of Self-employed Workers, ATA, to denounce the Spanish government to the European Commission for tax-free VAT
Association of Self-Employed Workers reports government to EC for refusing to apply VAT exemptions for low-turnover freelancers
The Corner The Government’s refusal to implement a VAT exemption for self-employed workers with lower income volumes—a measure already implemented in most European Union countries and which was supposed to be approved by January 2025—has led the main self-employed association, ATA, to report the Spanish Executive to the European Commission. The complaint cites the refusal to transpose the community directive modifying the special VAT exemption r…
ATA claims that the Executive does not comply with the Directive requiring the establishment of a special scheme for self-employed and low-invoicing SMEs.
Spain remains the only EU country that has not implemented the VAT exemption The implementation of the measure is already one year behind schedule Why is the measure not applied at national level?The European Commission informed Spain of the opening of a sanctioning file at the beginning of the year The National Federation of Associations of Self-employed Workers (ATA) has denounced the Spanish Government for not having yet implemented the VAT e…
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Forbes EspañaAta Denounces the Government to the European Commission for Not Exempting the Self-Employed From Vat
The National Federation of Employers' and Self-employed Workers' Associations (ATA) has lodged a complaint against the Government of Spain with the European Commission concerning the failure to transpose and implement the Directive on the common system of value added tax (VAT) as regards the special VAT exemption scheme for self-employed and small businesses, known as 'freedom of VAT'.
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