Spain Online VAT Register
The Immediate Supply of Information (SII) changes the current VAT management system in Spain. Starting July 1, 2017, companies are required to electronically submit invoices issued and received to the Spain tax agency through the AEAT (Agencia Estatal de Administración Tributaria) online system. To learn more about how to submit the reports online, refer to the information available on the Spanish tax authority’s website.
SII is required for anyone that currently files the VAT return every month, or where the business has an annual turnover above 6 million Euros. This requirement extends to VAT group and, in effect, replaces the monthly VAT return.
Using the Tax Audit Files SuiteApp, you can generate the following reports in the XML format, as specified by the Spanish tax authority:
Spain Issued Invoices
This report contains the output VAT transactions, including domestic sales, and EU sales and exports. Transactions will include sales invoices and cash sales.
Transactions with the following Registration Status is not included in the report:
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Registered
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Registered with Errors
Spain Issued Invoices -Error Correction
This report contains invoices issued that were included in a previous submission, but were registered with errors. Generate this report after correcting the errors on affected transactions. Transactions will include sales invoices and cash sales.
Spain Issued Invoices -Amending Transactions
This report includes adjustments that were applied to issued invoices. Transactions will include credit memos, cash refunds, and journal entries.
Spain Received Invoices
This report contains the input VAT transactions, including domestic purchases, and EU purchases and imports. Transactions include vendor bills, cheques, and credit card charges.
Spain Received Invoices -Error Correction
This report contains invoices received that were included in a previous submission, but were Registered with Errors. Generate this report after correcting the errors in the affected transactions. Transactions include vendor bills, cheques, and credit card charges.
Spain Received Invoices -Amending Transactions
This report includes adjustments that were applied to received invoices. Transactions include vendor credits, credit card refunds, and journal entries.
Spain Cash Collections
This report contains cash collections received by the taxpayer that have exceeded 6,000 Euros from the same customer on an annual basis. Transactions include customer payments, cash refunds, cash sales, customer deposits, and customer refunds. This report is to be submitted annually.
Spain Investment Goods Register
This report contains the fixed assets transactions subject to a pro rata and for which the taxpayer will not have full entitlement to recover VAT. Transactions will include vendor bills, cheques, and credit card charges that are reported in Invoices Received with CG-ES, IG-ES, and EIG-ES tax codes. This report is to be submitted annually.
Specific Intra-Community Transactions
This report includes selected receivable, payable, and credit card charges transactions based on the intended use of the goods, as listed in a series of articles in the Law of VAT (art. s 2 and 9).
Spain Issued Invoices -Corrected Amending Transactions
This report contains adjustments to issued invoices that were included in a previous submission, but were registered with errors. Generate this report after correcting the errors in the affected transactions. Transactions include credit memos, cash refunds, and journal entries.
Spain Received Invoices -Corrected Amending Transactions
This report contains adjustments to received invoices that were included in a previous submission, but were registered with errors. Generate this report after correcting the errors in the affected transactions. Transactions include vendor credits, credit card refunds, and journal entries.
For more information about generating the required reports, see Generating the Spain VAT Register Reports.
For the period from July to December 2017, taxpayers can submit the required information within 8 days (excluding weekends and holidays) of recording it in NetSuite. After the specified period, the reports must be submitted within four days (excluding weekends and holidays).
Prerequisites
The following SuiteApps are required to generate the Spain VAT register information:
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International Tax Reports – Bundle ID: 43003
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Tax Audit Files – Bundle ID: 47492
For more information, see Installing a Bundle.
Limitations
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The generated XML file will show the company name and VAT ID that is on the Subsidiary record. If your NetSuite account has multiple nexuses in the same subsidiary, and Spain is one of them, you must manually modify the XML file to reflect the Spain VAT ID and business name (if it is different).
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Supported transaction types only include sales invoices, cash sales, credit memo, credit card, cheque payment, vendor bills, and vendor credits.
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Converting a purchase order to a vendor bill, with all relevant SII information included, is not yet supported.
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Transaction entries in the report with no values in IDEmisorFactura node, for both NIF and Idotro block, will not be flagged. This includes Received Invoices such as bills from Vendors with no Tax Registration Number and no ID Type/ID Number.
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Flagging of Received Invoices with the same Reference Number coming from the same vendor is not supported. Registration status of these transactions will not be updated.
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Flagging of Journals with the same Reference Number and the same Transaction Date is not supported. Registration status of these transactions will not be updated.
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Flagging of Issued Invoices (such as invoice and cash sale) with the same transaction number is not supported. Registration status of these transactions will not be updated.
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Flagging of Cheque transactions whose payee is not a vendor is not supported. Registration status of these transactions will not be updated.
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Flagging of the same Reference Number that is used for a different transaction type is not supported. If the same Reference Number is used for different transaction type, the report flagging will fail and mark the transactions as duplicate. The system currently has no way of identifying which transactions have been flagged as duplicate.