Another failure of digitalization

The government has delayed until 2027 the mandatory nature of Verifactu, the electronic invoicing system that the tax authorities wanted to impose on self-employed workers and SMEs from January 2026. Sánchez’s executive is once again failing in its objective of digitizing … relations of the administration with citizens. The economic injury left by this postponement in thousands of cases is serious, since those who have come forward so far have already invested in the software necessary for this tool that was going to be mandatory and will no longer be, at least until 2027. A law with sanctions cannot be implemented without legal certainty. And above all, the Treasury should have checked the possibilities that millions of professionals and small businesses can adapt to electronic invoicing, such a global and radical change. The failures of the Government’s digitization projects (Covid radar, digital kit, Verifactu, etc.) are recurring, unsuitable for the current era.