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Inheritance And Increases On Plusvalia Taxes.

Some expats appear to be unaware of the need to use a good legal representative when you lose a loved one. Unaware of the duties to be paid by the beneficiaries. Each region has its own regulations on IHT and amounts payable if at all. I have of

Scam Awareness 2015

Safe not sorry. Consumer Protection. Dear members. Due to your response about setting up a scam awareness spot, At present we can use this area. We will post the guides from CAB UK on how to spot scam of all types of scam. We will slowly draft o

Dgt Insult To Expat Intelligence

Update. The two year protocol no longer stands. From the DGT site: Exchanging EU and EEA licences while you have a valid licence is completely voluntary. With the exchange we will change the driving licence you had for an equivalent Spanish dr

Athena V11. Fraud Or Investment?

Cab Spain have received enquiries from expats who a few years back invested with Athena V11. It appears that these investors have not received any interest on their investments, shareholder Reports or quarterly portfolios or any documentation at

Higher Indemnizations Victims Traffic Accidents

We received a heads-up from our lawyers about the approval of a new concept-law. The Consejo de Ministros approved the proposal last Friday and it contains a new calculation system to determine the amount of indemnization to pay out to victims o

Primary Care For Non -residents: A Smoke-screen

I know many of you must have seen the news that the “government” is giving non-documented individuals access to primary care medicine. I will now tell you why this will NOT work: + They will not have a card: no card, no access to s

Reporting Cases Of Illegal Practices By The Healthcare Facilities

Dear Members, I have been in touch with ‘Yo Si Sanidad Universal’, an association that is fighting to abolish abuses of the healthcare law. In order to do that, and also to expose the way that the civil servants do NOT do adhere to t

Movistar Fusión Contracts Increase 5 Euros/month

Telefonica is in the process of informing all clients that have contracted one of the Movistar Fusion products, that as of May 5th the contracted services will be 5 euros/month more expensive. Fusión TV Contigo will go up from 42 to 47 euros. F

Healthcare For Undocumented Immigrants

Illegal immigrants living in Spain will have access to free primary healthcare with a general practitioner are reinstated. These undocumented citizens lost the right to healthcare under the April 2012 ruling. This left only pregnant women, those

– New Instruction From Dgt/trafico Re Renewal Driving Licences

Although the directora of DGT/Trafico has not had the decency to respond to our letters, the latest sent on February 16th and delivered to her office on February 18th. We believe that the DGT are back-peddling and the new Instrucción 15/S-136 t
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