he announcement that EuroVegas will finally be built in Madrid after months of uncertainty was welcomed with “great joy” by the regional government, which called the news “a liberation.”
“The regional premier’s determination has brought this project here over other serious candidates like Barcelona,” said a spokesperson for Esperanza Aguirre, of the conservative Popular Party (PP). Read more »
After having produced weekly original posts on our blog we thought it was time to write some lines with regards to the accountancy and tax areas that our firm, Arcos & Lamers Asociados, have been specializing in.
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Sheikh Abdullah Bin Nasser Al Thani, who recently purchased Malaga FC has unveiled his intention to build a second Puerto Banus style complex in Marbella’s Bajadilla marina.
The project would require an investment of 70 million euros and include the expansion of the marina with 400 additional moorings for small and medium-sized yachts. Read more »
Barcelona has been ranked 40th in the 50 cities with the best quality of life in the world. Madrid made it to 43rd. Other European cities on the list include Viena and Zurich.
The report studied 221 cities around the world, taking New York (which occupies 47th place) as the reference to compare various levels of quality of life, such as public services, the offer of nightlife and accommodation, the socio-cultural atmosphre, economic, political, social, educational and environment. Read more »
The below mentioned summary on the new Decree 2/2012 of 10 January, which regulates the regimen about the existing buildings and settlements over undeveloped land in the Autonomous Community of Andalusia (entered into force onFebruary 29, 2012), has been issued by the lawyer Mr. Félix Ruiz, Spanish solicitor and proffesional of the Spanish law firm Arcos & Lamers Asociados in Marbella.
This Spanish law approved by the regional Andalucía government does not pursue the so called “urban amnesty” (“amnistía fiscal”) for those buildings that somehow are in a irregular situation within the Andalucía non developed land. But just the opposite. The Decree far from giving sense to this situation, provokes new questions and increases the already chaotic regulatory about the rustic land in Andalucía. Read more »
Mariano Rajoy is not considering further VAT or Personal Income Tax increases in the 2013 Budget and hopes not to have to take such difficult decisions for the Spanish people as those taken during the first months of his term in office.
The President of the Government also calls for greater economic and fiscal integration within the European Union; “no steps backward will be taken; not by the Euro, not by the Single Market and not by the Union”.
The President of the Government, Mariano Rajoy, received the President of the Republic of France, François Hollande, at Moncloa Palace on Thursday. They discussed matters on the international and bilateral agendas, including the situation in Spain and the Eurozone. Read more »
BBVA, Spain’s second-largest bank, said Tuesday it plans to accelerate the sale of property on its books acquired through foreclosures and foreclosures in lieu in order to clear such assets from its books by the start of 2014.
“The period we estimate for selling \[these assets\] is between 18 and 21 months,” BBVA Chief Operating Officer Ángel Cano said at a presentation of the bank’s earnings for the first six months of the year. Cano said the bank had sold 2,500 property units in the first half of this year, an increase of 40 percent over the same period a year earlier. Read more »
The data provided by the Public Employment Services of all the autonomous regions for the month of July show that unemployment has fallen by 27,814 on the previous month (-0.6%). Total recorded unemployment now stands at 4,587,455.
Recorded unemployment fell in the construction sector by 14,792 (-1.9%), the number of first-time job-seekers fell by 10,448 (-2.65%) and recorded unemployment fell in the industrial sector by 7,448 (-1.41%). On the other hand, recorded unemployment increased in the agricultural sector by 3,373 (2.09%) and in the service sector by 1,501 (0.05%). Read more »
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