The Treasury will create a chat to assist citizens with debts with the Tax Agency

The Treasury will create a new chat so that citizens with debts with the Tax Agency can deal with the Administration in a more agile and intuitive way, since the measure will be accompanied by greater information about the procedures carried out by the Entity.

“Citizens will have response forms with contextual help by requesting a telephone appointment and through a new chat service. In this way, the response to the procedures will be simpler and more agile, making it easier for citizens to comply with their tax obligations and achieving greater simplicity,” states the guidelines document that will govern the Annual Tax and Customs Control Plan..

In terms of seizure proceedings, the Treasury seeks to reduce tax burdens and encourage greater voluntary income by citizens from whom seizure proceedings are requested.

The simplification of the language of the Tax Agency will not end there and will also apply to the documents it issues most frequently and, specifically, those related to the control of personal income tax..

SURVEILLANCE NEW TAXES

In the document, the Treasury also warns that the settlement of taxes on the banking and energy sector, as well as the temporary solidarity tax on large fortunes, will be closely monitored.

Likewise, the result of other recently created taxes such as the Tax on Certain Digital Services and the Tax on Financial Transactions, better known as 'Google Tax' and 'Tobin Tax' at a colloquial level, will also be specifically analyzed..

In addition, the document from the General Directorate of the State Tax Administration Agency also recognizes that the planning of this exercise and “predictably” of others in the future will be affected by the repeal of the Montoro Corporate Tax reform by the Court Constitutional on the tightening of the limits on the compensation of negative tax bases.

OTHER NEWS

The most striking novelty for the taxpayer will be the taxation of cryptocurrencies, called “virtual currencies” by the Administration. This change was planned for the 2023 campaign, but finally, the delay in the regulatory processing of the project caused it to become effective this year.

For this, three models have been enabled: 172, to declare balances in virtual currencies, 173, which declares operations with crypto and 721, which reports on assets of this type held abroad. and that users with cryptocurrencies in this situation have until March 31 to fill out and send to the Treasury.

Another entity that will receive greater scrutiny from the Treasury will be neobanks and other alternative payment financial entities, subject to less control than traditional ones.

As usual, the Treasury will also monitor businesses with high amounts of cash with special care, since it is a business model with “high risk of existence of an underground economy”, a category that it shares with companies that use electronic methods of payments located abroad that avoid the obligations to provide information.

In terms of assets, it will focus on those who fictitiously move to Autonomous Communities with fewer taxes and on the taxation of foreigners who reside for more than 183 days in Spain and only pay taxes on their income in the country and not on their entire income. income, as they should.