A gestoría collects your invoices and receipts, keeps your records, prepares your returns and files them with your authorisation. Many also handle payroll, employment contracts and staff registrations. The service is usually paid as a monthly fee that depends on your invoice volume and on whether you are an autónomo or an SL.
Hiring a gestoría does not remove your responsibility: if a return is wrong or late, the penalty goes to the taxpayer, not to the gestoría. That is why it makes sense to check what is filed in your name and keep the filing receipts.
The typical mistake is handing over your paperwork on the last day of the quarter, in an unsorted bag of receipts. That makes it easy to lose an expense invoice or to calculate VAT with incomplete data.
An alternative is to keep your own books with software and call on an adviser only when you need one. kontora works that way: you keep double-entry books, invoice with Verifactu and get the modelos prepared box by box, with deadline reminders, so you can review them and file them from the app itself with your digital certificate (303, 130, 111, 115 and 123 by direct filing; 349, 347, 190, 180 and 193 through TGVI), yourself or with your adviser.
Guides that use this term
- What a gestor is, and how to work with yours
- Choosing accounting software as an autónomo in Spain: Verifactu, the free AEAT app and eight criteria to get it right
- Modelo 200: the annual corporate tax return of a Spanish SL, step by step
- Verifactu FAQ: the real questions of autónomos and small companies
- Registering as self-employed in Spain: the two procedures, in order and without fines
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