Bookkeeping and tax filing service for Airbnb hosts in Barcelona

Hosts face real compliance pressure, but many with no hotel-style services may file only an annual return, so the quarterly filing the pitch sells may not apply to them. Cheap generalist gestorías already solve the basic problem.

• Platforms now report host data to the tax authority (Modelo 238 replaced Modelo 179), so hosts can no longer assume nobody will cross-check them [37].
• Without hotel-style services a tourist rental is VAT-exempt and taxed as property income; with such services it is an economic activity with VAT [22].
• Sources disagree on how often cleaning and linen push a rental onto the VAT side [19].

The pool is capped at 10,101 licensed flats, and the city says every licence ends in November 2028. That leaves about 25 months of legal short-term demand. The share held by 1-3 flat owners is unknown, and no search-volume data was found.

• 10,101 tourist flat licences in Barcelona and no new ones since the 2014 moratorium [17].
• Licences expire in November 2028 and will not be renewed [12].
• After 2028 only stays of 32+ nights are allowed in residential buildings [10].
• Ceiling arithmetic: 10,101 flats x €59 x 12 is about €7.2m a year if every flat signed up, which will not happen.

The sector is crowded and cheap. A rental-only specialist already charges €34.90 a month, and several generalists list tourist rentals as a niche. No wedge is visible in the pitch beyond being a Barcelona gestor.

• Asesorages sells a flat-fee gestoría for tourist rentals at €34.90/month + IVA with a named adviser [24].
• Taxdown starts at about €30/month [2].
• Declarando from €49.90/month, Xolo and Taxfix are named as other online options [3].
• Quipu from €49/month and Holded Gestoría from €70/month, with Trustpilot scores of 4.2-4.4 [1].

Timing mostly works against the idea. Tighter reporting helps demand, but the 2028 phase-out shortens the life of the core customer base and hosts may leave early. Rules on registration and VAT are also unsettled.

• The 2028 phase-out announced by the mayor ends all tourist licences [12].
• Airbnb was fined €64m in December 2025 and platforms remove unlicensed listings [17].
• One source says the national registry was scrapped in May 2026; this is a single source and is unconfirmed [33].
• A 21% VAT on all tourist rentals was proposed in 2025 and still needed parliamentary approval; its status is unresolved [13].

A licensed gestor can run an online service with little capital. It is unconfirmed what the tax authority requires of a third-party filer and what the Colegio de Gestores requires. Set-up costs for the gestor were not found.

• Competitors already run online onboarding at this price tier, so the delivery model is proven [3].

€59 per property sits at the level rivals charge per taxpayer, not per flat. A host with three flats pays €177 a month against a rival's single fee of €35-65, which makes the pricing hard to defend. Time per client per month is unknown, so margin cannot be checked.

• Asesorages quotes €34.90/month + IVA [24].
• Taxdown starts at €29.90/month + IVA [2].
• Guiafiscal gives a market range of €70-250/month across online gestorías for broader packages [1].
• No source found shows per-property pricing is normal in this market.

The pitch says a licensed gestor runs it, which is the key skill. Network, time available, Catalan and English language ability, and any existing client base are not stated. The founder needs to supply these.

Unverified: no source found for this dimension.

One dependency can end the idea: the November 2028 licence expiry removes the whole customer segment within about 25 months. Shifting rules on registration and VAT add further uncertainty to the scope of the service.

• All 10,101 licences expire in November 2028 and will not be renewed [12].
• Secondary sources say the Constitutional Court upheld the plan in March 2025 [15].
• Fines of up to €600,000 for unlicensed rentals show the regulator is enforcing the rules [13].