by Natalie | Jun 3, 2020 | Legal & Financial
It’s the last few days of May as The Islander closes for press. Here in Spain, and across Europe we are taking our first tentative baby steps out of lockdown, and slowly in the direction of ‘normal’, or at least whatever the new version of that is going to look like....
by Natalie | May 8, 2020 | Legal & Financial
Happy May to you all, at least I think it’s May, it must be by now I guess. It’s a rare day on planet Earth when virtually everyone is doing the same thing at the same time. At the time of writing, I’m locked into my house, I have been for weeks, and I’m wondering...
by Natalie | May 4, 2020 | Legal & Financial
Please allow me to express my first words in remembrance and encouragement for all the people and their loved ones affected by this disease that has us all trapped in our homes in this worldwide lockdown that seems a science fiction movie. Our best wishes to all of...
by Natalie | Apr 7, 2020 | Legal & Financial
As The Islander closed for press for this issue, the world was on a steady march towards armageddon, or it seemed that way anyway. Coronavirus, or Covid-19 to christen it with it’s official title, had established a stronghold in Europe and elsewhere, and was...
by Natalie | Mar 10, 2020 | Legal & Financial
January is a bit of a financial squeeze for most of us. You know what it’s like, paid early in December, blew the last of it on new Year’s Eve, and an apparently endless January stretches out before us, our next pay cheque somewhere over the distant horizon and all...
by Natalie | Mar 5, 2020 | Legal & Financial
When your company sells goods to entrepreneurs or any other VAT recordings in the European Union (EU) you should not charge VAT. This is because these operations (called “intra-EC deliveries”) are 0% rated or exempt from said tax though the self-charge...
