Since the beginning of this week, entrepreneurs have not been able to locate new companies created quickly through the CIRCE system in Catalonia, a problem that has raised suspicions among some in the face of the inflamed political moment. Everything indicates, however, that it is merely a technical problem.
The Information Center and Business Creation Network (CIRCE), dependent on the Ministry of Industry, is the mechanism that allows the procedures for the incorporation and start-up of commercial companies in Spain to be carried out electronically and in just 48 hours. But a technical communication problem between the central Administration and the Agència Tributària de Catalunya (ATC) currently prevents companies from domiciling in the four Catalan provinces.
A business manager accustomed to working with the CIRCE who wishes to domicile a limited company (SRL), a civil society (SC) or a community of property (CB) in Barcelona, Girona, Tarragona or Lleida cannot do so these days through this express system. The company's location option restricts Catalonia.
According to the Ministry of Industry, the reason is a technical problem in the computer gateway through which “information migrates” on the Tax on Property Transfers and Documented Legal Acts (ITP/AJD), model 600, between the ATC and this department.
Along the same lines, from the Department of Economy and Finance of the Generalitat they point out that last week the ATC detected that a CIRCE server was down and the Ministry of Industry was notified of this, although since then they have been waiting for a solution to the problem. .
The CIRCE depends on the general subdirectorate of support for SMEs. This department has chosen to disable the option of locating addresses in Catalonia due to this “communication” problem, it is explained on the CIRCE website. When a businessman or manager tries to use the system, a message warns him that “due to communication problems with the ATC that prevent the liquidation of the ITP/AJD of companies under incorporation, the creation of CB, SC and SRL with domicile is temporarily suspended. social in Catalonia through the Single Electronic Document”.
Industry claims to be working to solve it as soon as possible. Those affected demand speed because if an entrepreneur urgently needs to create a company, he would not be able to domicile it in Catalonia. Precisely, the objective of CIRCE is that: to register SMEs with agility.
