Starting January 1st, the Spanish Tax Agency will intensify its monitoring of Bizum transactions made by professionals and businesses, as well as all card transactions exceeding €25,000 annually. These measures were outlined in Royal Decree 253/2025 of April 1st. Financial institutions (banks, payment institutions, and electronic money providers) will now be required to report all such transactions to the Tax Agency each month.

Neither Joan, nor Miquel, nor Paula, but neither Josep nor Montserrat. None of them practice what the English writer Virginia Woolf called "the most human art": writing letters by hand and sending them. Or at least not regularly. In fact, Joan, 23, hasn't done so since she was in school, when she shared some letters with other students from the State as part of an educational project. "I don't remember the name of the town, but I know we wrote and sent letters to other children through the postal service. After that, I'd say I haven't sent any more," she explains, crunching her memory. However, the truth is that using a sheet of paper, an envelope, and a stamp, as well as one's hands, to write and send a few words to someone can almost be considered an exception. In Spain, 80% of the population says they will not have used traditional postal service—sending a letter or postcard—at any point in 2024.