self-employed

Spanish SMEs provide jobs for 71% of social security contributors

Association of Self-Employed Workers reports government to EC for refusing to apply VAT exemptions for low-turnover freelancers

The Government’s refusal to implement a VAT exemption for self-employed workers with lower income volumes—a measure already implemented in most European Union countries and which was supposed to be approved by January 2025—has led the main self-employed association, ATA, to report the Spanish Executive to the European Commission. The complaint cites the refusal to transpose the community directive modifying the special VAT exemption regime for the self-employed and SMEs—known as…


Spanish SMEs provide jobs for 71% of social security contributors

Spanish self-employed workers: Lower turnover and higher expenses

This is revealed by the latest Barometer from the Association of Self-Employed Workers (ATA), which details that “40.9% of self-employed workers state that their turnover has decreased in the first quarter of the year compared to 2024,” while “28.4% believe that their activity will decrease in the coming months.” In fact, “three out of four self-employed workers are not optimistic and have a negative (45.6%) or very negative (28.7%) perception…