Trickle down economics

If you have no interest in British politics you can count yourselves lucky. They’ve just had a change of Prime Minister, the big blonde PM has just been replaced by a smaller blonde one, Liz Truss. They didn’t have a general election or anything sensible like that....

History: The origins of maritime navigation law

Today we will review the beginnings of Maritime Law, through the first mentions of a regulation referring to the sea. As it could not be otherwise in this visit to the most remote past of Law, we will focus on the rules concerning the sea that we can find in one of...

On the up by Phill McCoffers

If you have recently topped up the tank of your car, or boat recently, you will no doubt have winced at the price. It’s gone up a lot. When the price of fuel goes up, so does everything else. There can’t be a product on earth that doesn’t have the...

The Maritime Mobile Service Identity (MMSI)

The Maritime Mobile Service Identity or MMSI is the 9 digit number that identifies each ship’s station for safety and radiocommunications purposes, and which must be programmed in the automatic digital selective call (DSC) radiocommunications equipment of ships...

VAT or to Transfer Tax?

VAT or to Transfer Tax in the purchase of a vessel in Spain by non residents? Without prejudice of the Matriculation Tax the purchase in Spain  by a non entrepreneurial, that is, a private person may trigger VAT or Transfer Tax. We leave the Matriculation Tax out of...