Spanish accounting and tax, genuinely in Russian

Right now, Russian in Spanish taxes costs as much as a gestoría

There are tens of thousands of Russian-speaking entrepreneurs in Spain, and the offer is still just one: find a Russian-speaking gestoría and pay it gestoría prices, month after month, often without understanding why.

• There is no software in Russian. Spanish accounting services exist only in Spanish (sometimes in English), so the language of the AEAT stays a barrier even for people who have lived here for years.
• The SL owner is especially underserved. If you have a company, the accounting is more demanding: double entry, Impuesto de Sociedades (corporate income tax), annual accounts filed at the Registro Mercantil (commercial registry). Tools in Russian for that simply did not exist.
• The barrier of language and deadlines. Hacienda writes in Spanish and does not wait. A form filed late means automatic surcharges, and you often find out about the deadline once it has passed.

kontora does not replace your gestor where you really need one, but it takes away the monopoly on understanding: at last you see your own numbers and your own forms in your own language.

Your SL and your autónomo in a single account

Many Russian-speaking entrepreneurs run two stories at once: an SL for the main business and an autónomo (self-employed) status for side projects or as the company's director. Normally that means two services, two accounts and twice the confusion.

In kontora it is one account with several companies: you switch between the SL and the autónomo, and each keeps its own accounting, its own forms and its own deadlines. For the SL, double-entry books, forms 200 and 202 of corporate income tax, year-end close and depreciation; for the autónomo, IRPF (personal income tax) and IVA (VAT). A company's first year is usually the most confusing, so we cover it separately in the guide to corporate tax in the first year.

What kontora actually does (and what it does not)

On purpose, we do not promise to file your taxes. In Spain, filing is done on the AEAT electronic office, and you or your gestor do it. Here is what kontora does take on:

• It generates the form drafts box by box: 303 and 390 for IVA, 111 and 115 for withholdings, 349 for EU services, 200 and 202 for corporate tax. Every box (casilla) explained in your language, with the official name always in Spanish.
• It keeps your double-entry books, where a mismatch is impossible, and stores your official ledgers.
• It warns you before every deadline and watches the BOE (the official state gazette) daily, so no rule changes behind your back.
• Support in Russian: a real person, not translated buttons.

The honest version: kontora hands you a finished, understandable form and reminds you when it is due. The final button on the AEAT is pressed by you or your gestor. That way you pay for software, not for translation.

The myths that will cost you money

Around the idea of Spanish taxes for foreigners there is a lot of confident advice from group chats. The three most expensive misconceptions:

• I have the digital nomad visa, so I pay 24%. The Beckham regime (a flat 24%) does not apply to a freelance autónomo, not even if you hold the digital nomad visa and invoice as a contractor. You pay the normal progressive IRPF, from 19% to 47% depending on your income.
• As long as I invoice under 85,000 euros, I do not charge IVA. In Spain there is no such exemption threshold: the EU directive that allows it has not been transposed into Spanish law as of July 2026. You generally charge IVA (usually 21%) from your very first invoice. How it is worked out is in the modelo 303 guide.
• Taxes in Spain are once a year. The main ones are quarterly: the forms are filed in April, July, October and January. The annual return is separate.

And a note on EU clients: an invoice to a business in another EU country goes without Spanish IVA under the reverse charge (inversión del sujeto pasivo), but only if you are registered in VIES (the EU VAT registry) and file the modelo 349. Which suits you at the start, autónomo or SL, is compared honestly in the autónomo or SL guide.

Run the numbers and join the beta

Before you register anything, it helps to see the figures. Our calculators are free and need no signup: for example, the 2026 autónomo quota calculator shows your monthly quota by income (new autónomos get a tarifa plana, a flat reduced rate, of 80 euros for the first 12 months).

kontora is right now in a free, closed beta. Join the waitlist: you get access to the bookkeeping, the form drafts and the reminders in Russian, and you help us finish what this market never had, decent tax software in your language.

Where to start

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