You are driving or you are going to buy a second hand car from a private person with foreign plates. What do, I have to do and what taxes do I have to pay? As it happens with vessels, Spanish residents for tax purposes are not permitted to operate a car on foreign...
As we approach the end of a very eventful year, especially in terms of popular politics, it might be a good time to reflect on the influences driving currency values at the moment, especially US$, € and £, and how these might play out in the year to come....
Phill McCoffers – Islander January 2017 In the melee of the Trump victory and ongoing Brexit shambles you may have missed an apparently small story that slipped under the radar in October that has greater potential ramifications for the way the 21st...
If you own a property in Spain you have probably heard about the cadastral office or the “catastro” and the cadastral value of your property. But what is exactly the “catastro” and what are its functions? In principle we can say that the cadastral office or the...
As you may have noticed, the American people (via the complexity of their electoral college voting system) put shouty reality TV star Donald Trump, into the White House as the 45th President of the United States. Wow. Regardless of whether you like him, or...
Short-term thinking and unrealistic expectations are headwinds that risk driving investors’ plans off course. Many investors do not realise how much they need to save or for how long, and will face financial challenges in later life unless they adjust to the new...
