HE Ministry of Industry and Tourism continues to create State Special Criminal Observatory. Department he currently heads Jordi Hereu took out public participation The draft royal decree regulating this figure until next January 29 was designed within the framework of the ‘Create and Grow Act’. attention Payment terms for commercial transactions. Its star measure is the annual publication of a sort of ‘blacklist’ of companies that openly say so. failing to meet payment deadlines suppliers who will be involved in the implementation Electronic invoice for all commercial transactions and should be published at: the first eight months of each year.
This ‘blacklist’ will include: identity companies with more Overdue debt of 600,000 euros to its suppliers and that they paid less than 10% of the invoice total within the statutory period, as reflected in the ‘Create and Grow Law’ approved in September 2022. However, the first of these publications was We will postpone it for at least one more yearIn order to ensure that the electronic invoice system promoted by the Ministry of Finance has not yet been put into effect and to prepare a list of companies paying low payments, the invoice information provided by the Tax Office 31 December of the previous year.
Once this data is obtained, the list must be published before it is published. 31 August of the current year inside ipyme.org website and will include in addition to the company’s corporate name and her tax identification number and CNAE activity code, “total amount of invoices awaiting payment”.
The preparation of this annual list is one of the tasks of the criminal observatory, and it is also required to prepare a report. annual report about the situation payment terms and late payment It will be published on the website for commercial activities Ministry of Industry and Tourism It will also include information regarding public administrations provided by. Ministry of Finance and Public Duties.
observatory members
The late payment observatory will be chaired by the First Vice President of the Council of State for SMEs, that is, the President of SMEs. Minister of State for IndustryCurrently owned and will be owned by Rebeca Torró twelve vowels. There will be a representative in each ministry Industry, Economy and Finance, and two members representing autonomous communities.
There will also be one member from the “Public Administration responsible for the management of the public electronic billing solution”, one member from the Chamber of Commerce and one member from INE. AND two members It represents “the nation’s most representative state-level and cross-sector business organization.” small and medium business” And two more people “In representation associations or other specialized organizations in the field late payment“.
After the royal decree is approved and comes into force, administrations and associations, 30 days to appoint your members and to establish this body within Two months later.
Improve behavior
The purpose of this standard is to “improve”. payment behavior companies, As explained as “an issue that particularly affects SMEs” economic memory The draft royal decree refers to data from the Criminality Observatory report for the first quarter of 2022 prepared by the Spanish Confederation of Small and Medium Enterprises (CEPYME).
According to these data, the amount late payment commercial debt almost 350 billion euros, representing an annual growth of 41.9%. Considering these figures and 8% interest rateIt is estimated that late payment interest Late payment due date reached 2.058 million euros (+50.9% y/y). “Part of this increase can be explained by the increase. percentage of total invoices paid late and the amount of late payment invoices increased by 33% compared to the first quarter of 2021. better payment behavior “I think companies will help mitigate these impacts,” he concludes.