Spain will make it illegal to invoice with an Excel spreadsheet in 2027
I’m not exaggerating. This is a real law
The plan was this. Every self employed person has to buy government certified invoicing software. From 2026 on, you can’t use things like Word, Excel or a PDF to invoice your clients
Only certified software that reports each invoice to the tax authority in real time, the moment you create it
Use a spreadsheet instead? The fine is up to €50,000 per year. This is not for hiding income btw. Just for owning the wrong software
To make things even worse, it was supposed to be mandatory in 2026
So thousands of small businesses did the responsible thing. They panicked, they paid for the software, they retrained their staff, they rebuilt their entire invoicing on a tight deadline because Hacienda told them to…
Then, less than a month before it kicked in, the government pushed the whole thing back a year
Read that again
Companies had already spent real money preparing for a deadline that suddenly evaporated. Following the rules was an expensive mistake
This is the Spanish system in one story. Invent an absurd requirement. Threaten you with a €50,000 fine. Make you pay to comply. Then move the goalposts and punish the ones who took it seriously
This is why I left
I’m done paying to be allowed to do my own work, and paying again when they change their mind
my Uber driver today in Chile 🇨🇱…
grew up in Venezuela
private British school, perfect English
had a high-level logistics job in Caracas…
great money, stable life
then it started
his nephew got kidnapped
he got kidnapped
his uncle got kidnapped
three separate incidents
all in the same year
ransoms had to be paid
he left in 2017
came to Chile, tried to rebuild…
couldn’t get back to the same level
now he’s driving Uber
people think success is about talent…
but if your skills and network only exist in one country
everything resets
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No importa si nuestros detractores logran que nos suspendan la cuenta.
Esa es la belleza de la tecnología blockchain.
@InternetSpirits viven para siempre.