Plusvalía Tax. New regulation

In Spain whenever  you sold real estate no matter if you had profit or loss you were obliged to file and pay to the Town Hall the Local Ground Tax that burdens the Increase of Value of Urban Land (Impuesto sobre el Incremento del Valor de los Terrenos Urbanos, IIVTNU,...

Phantom Inflation

It looks like we may have inflation on the global economic horizon, but we might not. If we have it, it might be a problem, or it might not. It’s one of those all too common occurrences where they say if you put ten economists in a room, they will emerge with eleven...

New Anti Tax Fraud legislation

Among the main measures contained  in Law 11/2021, of 9 July on the prevention and fight against tax fraud regulation, (Ley 11/2021, de 9 de julio, de prevención y lucha contra el fraude fiscal) , are the limitation of cash payments and the threshold for appearing on...

The great under appreciated

The United Kingdom is undergoing a fascinating social experiment lately. It didn’t really mean to, but it’s been caught in a headlock somewhat of its own making. They are, for reasons I’ll come to shortly, trying to run a country with a serious shortage of people who...

Billionaires in Space

There are these three billionaires, each of them has a rocket….. It sounds like the start of a joke, but it isn’t. It’s a deadly serious, and very expensive business, but is it a helpful pushing of the boundaries of science ultimately for the betterment of...