Income Tax

Does It Pay to Move to Another Region as a Digital Freelancer in Spain? The Numbers, for Real

August 31, 2026

If your work runs entirely off a laptop, this has probably happened to you: a fellow freelancer, billing roughly what you bill, mentions what they actually keep at year’s end, and the number doesn’t match yours. Same work, sometimes even the same clients, and a real gap in what each of you takes home. The explanation is almost always the same one: you live in different Spanish regions, and that changes what you pay in income tax on the same money.

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Deducting the car, the phone and the home as a freelancer: what the tax office accepts (and what it doesn't)

August 25, 2026

Some freelance expenses raise no doubt at all: office supplies, the software you use every day, your accountant. Then there are the car, the phone and the home, which happen to be the things you use for everything: for work and for life. That’s where almost every freelancer hesitates, and where the two opposite mistakes happen: deducting nothing out of fear, or deducting too much without realizing you’re taking on a real risk.

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A till receipt is not an invoice: when you can deduct it and when you can't

August 24, 2026

You have lunch with a client, pay 48 euros and tuck the receipt into your wallet with a sense of duty done. Three months later, doing your quarterly return, that crumpled piece of paper is worth rather less than you thought: you can deduct the expense, but not the VAT. And not because the receipt is faulty, but because it’s missing one line you can only ask for at the moment you pay.

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Renting out a flat in Spain: what you really pay, and the expenses almost nobody claims

August 13, 2026

Renting out a flat looks like the easy part: you sign the contract, you collect every month, and that’s it. The complicated bit shows up in the tax return, and almost always for two opposite reasons: many people assume that money is taxed lightly (it’s taxed at their highest rate) while at the same time leaving out expenses the law grants them, starting with the biggest one of all, which doesn’t cost them a euro a year.

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