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VAT practical manual 2021.

Non-EU System

1. Definitions

  • Businessman or professional not established in the Community: Any entrepreneur or professional whose business activity is based outside the Community and who does not have a permanent establishment in the territory of the Community.

  • Member State of identification: the Member State chosen by the entrepreneur or professional not established in the Community to declare the start of his activity

  • Member State of consumption: the Member State in which the provision of services takes place.

2. Scope

This special regime may be used by entrepreneurs or professionals not established in the Community, who provide services to persons who do not have the status of entrepreneur or professional established in the Community or who have their domicile or habitual residence there.

The regime will apply to all services provided which must be deemed to be carried out in the Community.

3. Identification for the purposes of this regime

The tax authorities will identify the business owner or professional not established in the Community for the purposes of this regime by means of an individual number that will be notified electronically.

4. Formal obligations

The formal obligations in the event that Spain is the identifying member state are the following:

  1. Have a tax identification number

  2. Submit the declaration of commencement, modification or cessation of operations included in this special regime (form 035).

    The opening statement shall include the following information:

    • Name and surname or company name.

    • Postal and email addresses.

    • Electronic addresses of the websites through which it operates.

    • Tax identification number in the country where the headquarters are located.

    • Declaration of not having the headquarters of activity or any permanent establishment in the Community.

  3. Submit a self-assessment for each calendar quarter, regardless of whether or not you have provided services covered by this regime (form 369).

    The self-assessment must be submitted during the month following the period to which it refers.

  4. Enter the tax corresponding to each self-assessment within the self-assessment submission period.

  5. Keep and maintain a record of the operations included in this special regime.

    This register shall be available to both the Member State of identification and the Member State of consumption and shall be kept for a period of ten years.

  6. Issue and deliver invoices for all operations included in this regime.

5. Rectification of self-assessments

Any subsequent modification of the figures contained in the self-assessments submitted will be made in the self-assessment corresponding to a subsequent period submitted within a maximum period of three years from the date on which the initial self-assessment to be modified should have been submitted.

6. Deduction of the supported quotas

In the event that Spain is the member state of identification, the businessmen or professionals covered by this special regime, who do not carry out operations other than those covered by said regime that require them to present self-assessment of VAT by the general regime:

  • The amounts incurred in the acquisition or importation of goods and services intended for carrying out operations covered by the regime may not be deducted from the self-assessment subject to this regime (form 369).

  • For the quotas borne in the territory of application of the Tax, they will request the refund by the procedure provided for in article 119 bis of the Law, without requiring that the existence of reciprocal treatment in favor of the entrepreneurs or professionals established in the territory of application of the Tax be recognized.

  • For the fees borne in other Member States, they will request the refund through the procedure provided for in the regulations of the Member State in which they were borne in development of Directive 86/560/ EEC , of the Council, of November 17, 1986, without being able to require the recognition of reciprocal treatment or the designation of a tax representative in that Member State.

  • In the case of entrepreneurs or professionals established in the Canary Islands, Ceuta or Melilla:

    1. They will request the refund of the fees borne in the other Member States (with the exception of those borne in the territory of application of the Tax) through the procedure provided for in article 117 bis of the VAT Law .

    2. They will request the refund of the fees borne in the territory of application of the Tax through the procedure provided for in article 119 of the VAT Law .

  • In the event that businessmen or professionals who, in addition to the operations subject to the special regime, carry out others that require them to submit a self-assessment of VAT under the general regime, the input VAT will be included in that self-assessment.