“Collaborative economy”. Some comments on the occasion of the sentence where the Spanish Supreme Court pronounces on the case HomeAway Spain vs the Catalan regional administration.

The platform HomeAway (now Vrbo) provides intermediation services in the sector of tourism accommodation whereby it publicised apartments for rent by their owners, takes care of the reservation process including the collection of signals and offer a help-desk service obtaining a commission from...

Spain: Reduction of the VAT taxable base due to bankruptcy of EU non-established clients after the Ramada Storax case (C-756/19). Possibility to apply for the correction of filed VAT returns on a retroactively basis?

Given the economic crisis resulting from the pandemic, the possibility to reduce the taxable base declared by the company for the case that a client, totally or partially, fails with its payment obligation, has significant practical implications and made it worthwhile to remind the conditions...

Impact of Brexit in the Canary Islands taxation

The incidence of Brexit in the various taxes whose application corresponds to the Autonomous Community of the Canary Islands has been regulated by the Regional tax authorities in the Resolution of January 28, 2021, which has been published in the Regional Official Gazette of 5 February 2021. As...

Project: VAT in the digital age

The European Commission is financing a project taking plaplace between 1 Oct 2020 and 0 Nov 2021 which aim is to evaluate the impact of digitalization in different aspects related to the management of VAT, namely:   Digital Reporting and e-invoicing; The VAT treatment of the platform economy;...