I thought these idiots got sent back after Brexit, but I guess they weasled out of it.
As someone working in a different EU country having business with Spain, I have to wonder why the Spanish tax authorities do everything that they can to make it impossible to pay taxes. It’s insanely bureaucratic.
If your want to pay them, you need to request (in Spanish) to make a payment, classify exactly what you’re paying (using internal Spanish Tax Authority codes, which are not present in the letter) just to get a reference code that will identify your payment, and only after that are you given the information to actually make a euro zone payment, which is then set for payment at a specific date or otherwise it will fail.
We owed them 0.57€ for interest on a periodical indiscrepancy and they still sent a stamped letter to let us know. Just the cost for them and us to do so easily runs into hundreds of euros for each part…
Tax authorities in other countries either send out the necessary information to actually pay the claim or have a fixed payment account based on company number, so you can always pay and have it allocated correctly. Just give me the IBAN and a reference?!
I can’t even be bothered to start thinking about the various ways that this system can be fucked over, but here they are only accepting that method.
TBH you need a Spanish Gestor (accountant/attorney) on retainer to handle this for you.
The .57¢ will cost you 50€ to process though…but that is also tax deductible.
Oh, and make sure It’s a reputable one…so many stories of them taking the money for years of foreigners and not paying a cent and skipping out of town. We got lucky and after asking our neighbors, ours is the son of a judge and the family has been part of the community for generations.
I thought these idiots got sent back after Brexit, but I guess they weasled out of it.
As someone working in a different EU country having business with Spain, I have to wonder why the Spanish tax authorities do everything that they can to make it impossible to pay taxes. It’s insanely bureaucratic.
If your want to pay them, you need to request (in Spanish) to make a payment, classify exactly what you’re paying (using internal Spanish Tax Authority codes, which are not present in the letter) just to get a reference code that will identify your payment, and only after that are you given the information to actually make a euro zone payment, which is then set for payment at a specific date or otherwise it will fail.
We owed them 0.57€ for interest on a periodical indiscrepancy and they still sent a stamped letter to let us know. Just the cost for them and us to do so easily runs into hundreds of euros for each part…
Tax authorities in other countries either send out the necessary information to actually pay the claim or have a fixed payment account based on company number, so you can always pay and have it allocated correctly. Just give me the IBAN and a reference?!
I can’t even be bothered to start thinking about the various ways that this system can be fucked over, but here they are only accepting that method.
TBH you need a Spanish Gestor (accountant/attorney) on retainer to handle this for you. The .57¢ will cost you 50€ to process though…but that is also tax deductible.
Oh, and make sure It’s a reputable one…so many stories of them taking the money for years of foreigners and not paying a cent and skipping out of town. We got lucky and after asking our neighbors, ours is the son of a judge and the family has been part of the community for generations.