Taxes & Accounting in Gran Canaria
Canary Islands
Las Palmas has one of Europe's densest concentrations of location-independent workers, and with it one of the most common tax mistakes: registering as autónomo on advice written for Madrid or Barcelona. The Canary Islands apply IGIC rather than IVA, so the registration itself, the invoice you issue and the returns you file all differ from the mainland version.
The correction is usually cheap if it happens before your first quarterly filing and expensive afterwards, because the invoices already sent to clients have to be reissued. For anyone billing clients abroad from Gran Canaria, the place to start is which indirect-tax rules apply to your specific supplies — a question with a definite answer, not a matter of opinion.
Local context: Gran Canaria
| Extranjería office | Oficina de Extranjería de Las Palmas, the province that also covers Fuerteventura and Lanzarote |
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| Connectivity | Las Palmas has among the best fibre and co-working provision in the archipelago, which is why the remote-work caseload concentrates here |
| Company registry | Registro Mercantil de Las Palmas |
| Local context | Las Palmas is one of Europe's best-established remote-work bases, so digital-nomad structures and Canary-specific tax setups are the everyday work here |
| Indirect tax | IGIC, not mainland IVA, at a lower general rate |
| Tax regime | Régimen Económico y Fiscal de Canarias (Ley 19/1994), including the RIC reserve and the ZEC zone |
| Tax administration | Agencia Tributaria for state taxes; the Canary tax body for IGIC |
| Work authorisation | Granted by the central Oficina de Extranjería |
Sources: Gobierno de Canarias — Tributos · Ley 19/1994 — REF de Canarias (BOE) · Zona Especial Canaria (ZEC) · Agencia Tributaria
What we handle: Taxes & Accounting
Beckham Law, autónomo filings, IRPF, Modelo 720 and bookkeeping.
- Non-resident income tax (IRNR)
- Beckham Law special regime eligibility & application
- Autónomo quarterly filings (IVA, IRPF)
- Annual income tax return (IRPF)
Questions about this service
I registered as autónomo before I knew about IGIC. What now?
It is fixable. What determines how painful it is is timing: before your first quarterly filing it is largely paperwork, after it involves corrected returns and reissued invoices. Bring your registration documents and the invoices you have already sent to the first consultation.
Does living in Gran Canaria reduce my tax if my clients are all abroad?
Not automatically, and this is where a lot of online advice is simply wrong. The Canary regime affects indirect tax and certain business incentives; your personal income tax still depends on where you are tax resident and on national rules. Anyone promising a flat answer without asking about your residency has not asked enough questions.
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