A political ploy to try to increase the chances that the process of selecting and appointing city council auditors and secretaries will be transferred to the state of Catalonia, by cutting off parliament. It will keep you on your toes for the next thirty days … To the millions of entrepreneurs and self-employed professionals, who after the Cabinet last Tuesday believed they had seen the commitment to implement the new electronic invoicing system postponed from January 1 which will allow the Tax Agency to have immediate access to all the invoices they have issued.
Postponement It could have been proven by royal decree Without the need for further ratification in Parliament, since it is the criterion of that rank that regulates the start-up of the calendar of what is popularly known as Verifactu, but the government has chosen to include this measure in a broader Royal Decree Law, which includes other issues that were also approved in the last Council of Ministers such as the possibility of forming city councils. Allocating its surplus for the year 2024 to investments in housing Even more controversial is the transfer of comprehensive powers over municipal secretaries, auditors and treasurers to the State General. In this way, postponing the entry into force of this system to 2027 will depend on the approval of this entire legislative package.
This new, and avoidable, focus of uncertainty joins the feeling of discontent A last minute maneuver by the government It was born in some areas. The Register of Tax Advisers of the General Council of Economists expressed its regret in a statement issued on Wednesday at the government’s decision to deactivate this system just one month after it entered into force.
“It is necessary to meet the deadlines for its entry into force Rules are not modified at the last minute REAF President Agustín Fernández said that these changes remain stable over time to allow companies and entrepreneurs to plan safely and adapt their operations without any doubt. For the vast majority of the business community, this extension means rescheduling tasks, reviewing technology investments and incurring additional costs derived from last-minute adjustments.
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Even consulting firms and business organizations supported the extension to give companies and professionals more time to adapt. They question the government’s “modus operandi.”which left until the last minute to postpone the system in which tax agency specialists, tax consultants and the companies themselves have been working for months, making important investments.
This modus operandi has also limited the real impact of one of the other measures, which enables municipalities to apply the remainder of the 2024 surplus, which amounted to €6,642 million, but is available at this stage of the year in a much smaller amount. Municipal sources also confirm that this will happen without additional legislative change Extending the expected implementation period for these investmentswhich is usually around 30 months and which government decree requires to be developed within no more than 24 months and actually implemented in the next year, the level of investment implementation is just as marginal as it has been in recent years.