Never Retire: Paying Taxes In Spain

I am set up as an autónomo (self-employed, freelance worker) in Spain’s Tax and Social Security systems. In fact, I have been set up for a little while now.

That’s from the portal you can use to keep track of things, including your monthly Social Security contribution.

In today’s Never Retire newsletter story, details on—

• How easy it has been to keep track and make sense of things.

• The platform I am using to help me with my taxes. I will mention them here because this is a referral link. If you sign up with Xolo, use this link. So far, they have been fantastic, as I will illustrate when I detail how you pay taxes here.

• How much you pay, which isn’t all that different from what you would pay as a self-employed person in the United States, particularly from a “value” perspective.

• The difference between how you do things here when self-employed versus the US.

• Our trip to the Russafa Market this week to buy stuff for a light dinner. Because we need to break up the tax talk with something a bit more fun.

Though—on taxes—I hope my review of my situation can help you, not only if you’re moving to Spain, but doing something similar. Or—if you’re weird like me—maybe this type of thing just interests you.

The way bikes interest me.

I’m starting a new Substack later this year.

I intend to keep it free.

But this one—it’s primarily a paid Substack. So I appreciate your support of my livelihood, which will also help get this other Substack up and running sooner rather than later. A $100 (or larger) founding membership—which is a one-time payment resulting in a comped lifetime subscription—goes a super long way.

Tentative title for the new Substack: Friki de Bici (Free-kee deh Bee-see), which translates to Bike Geek.