In conscience, this letter should be entitled something like “The Infuges of a Banana State”; but out of respect, out of principle, or through education, we have not named it that way. Our motivation, dear readers, is the publication of the ministerial order of the 13th January with effect on 14 January to modify an […]

Spain will receive 71 million euros in transfers from the new EU Recovery Instrument, Next Generation In the context of the economic crisis caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, the State approved on 28 October a draft budget for 2021 containing a record increase in spending of 550,484 million euros with the aim of mitigating the […]

Dear customers and readers: We bring you an assessment of the season we have experienced. Without a doubt, the worst we have ever experienced. Next, we are going to make a summary via data from APARTUR, the Association of Tourist Apartments of Barcelona: The forecast was that the decrease in the number of reservations at the […]

Covid-19 and links for information on the prevention and active status of the virus: Interesting article in the newspaper Expansión, with the Coronavirus guide for companies and workers. Guide Expansion Catalan Institute of Occupational Health and Safety. Gencat   Presentation of the initial forecast of the impact of the coronavirus made by Iata Economics, to serve […]

Held at Foment del Treball , in November 2018, our annual assembly as Association of tourist apartments the conclusions could be defined as positive, with fringes of improvement, as always; perhaps the most important: citizen security or dialogue with the Administration. It should be noted that the percentage of impact of negative news in the city of Barcelona […]

Since we have use of reason we have seen families renting houses for the summer; displaced workers rent flats to rest; couples wanting intimacy … and so on to infinity and beyond. What has changed? The amount, without a doubt. The amount of short-stay rentals; as much as the people who think they have glimpsed […]

Hacienda will act on individuals who, in a non-transparent way, totally or partially transfer properties by internet or other means of tourism. According to the Tax and Customs Control Plan designed by the Agency for this year, it will also act on those regular tourist companies that do not duly comply with their tax obligations […]

HACIENDA FINE FOR PROPERTIES RENTED WITHOUT DECLARING!! The tax agency raises its collection through research 16% until July, reaching 6.4 billion. An important part of this money has been obtained by detecting 4,500 rented properties without declaring thanks to the crossing of light consumption information. Hacienda has verified, thanks to the electric companies, that there […]