Although it will not be mandatory to accept the new billing system until 2026, companies and self -employed can already use it from next July to begin to become familiar with the new regulations. We tell you all the details.
From next 2026, all companies and freelancers of our country whose billing is lower than six million euros They will have the obligation to send all their invoices to the Treasury in real time, although some exceptions will be contemplated. A new measure that emanates from the 2021 law to prevent tax fraud and that seeks to provide greater communication and transparency to the relationship between the tax agency and the national business fabric in its fight against the submerged economy.
Although there is still a little less than a year for its final entry in force, the tax agency will launch this new system from the next July 1, Together with a free platform so that companies and freelancers with lower turnover can meet the legal framework if they do not have adapted software and do not want to make the relevant investment.
This measure should not be confused with the already known Law creates and grows About electronic billing, of which a lot has been talked about in recent months, but currently continues to stop and without forecast of progress in the short term.
Its use will be voluntary until 2026
The ministry heading María Jesús Montero He staggered the entry into force of this new regulation in two phases. The first of them begins on January 1, 2026 and will only affect companies, which from that moment will have to share their real time billing. In a second phase, whose date is planned for July 1, 2026, it will be the freelancers who must do the same. Therefore, it is expected that facing the second half of next year, all professionals with a turnover of less than six million euros must be hosted by this legal framework.
It has been Javier Hurtado, AT Inspector to Chief of Area of the National Office of Frankon Research of the Tax Agency, the person in charge of communicating in an act held this week as all those companies that want, as well as the self -employed, can make use of this new system from Next July, as election is collected.
Use the Treasury System It will not be mandatory, since any other billing software that adapts to the requirements contemplated by the Tax Agency will be equally valid. It is advisable to begin to familiarize him as soon as possible to avoid last minute problems that can be translated into a sanction for breach.
A free platform for companies with little billing
For all those professionals who do not issue a Large number of invoices And they do not have compatible billing software, the Treasury will also make available a free system that you can use to comply with the regulations. So it will not be necessary to assume any extra cost.
Hurtado also took the opportunity to inform that the Tax Agency will carry out more information requirements to all entrepreneurs who do not send the invoices, hiding in any reason. So the recommendation is to step as soon as possible to this new system to meet the new AEAT standards.
