23 Dec 2017 10:56 PM:

Season's greetings all. Haven't been on for a while due to some people getting a little silly and becoming boring (probably like but no hum).

Just responding on this thread as I remember reading the trip advisor thread about Quesada (from almost seven years ago by the way) and thinking "What idiot could mix up Ciudad Quesada with a place in Central America and come to the conclusion that this one has gangs roaming the place and break ins every day?" Well, I guess we've found out.

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to some of the same ones.

Thread: Property auction .Bids start from €100

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14 Oct 2017 3:30 PM:

Firstly, which region do you live (or intend to live) in? Regions have different rules on patrimonio tax. For example, the Madrid region has a 100% allowance so there is no wealth tax to pay. Most other regions have €700,000 exemption for each person (€500,000 in Catalonia) so a married couple would have €1.400,000 exemption and, if they are resident, another 300k each so wealth tax wouldn't kick in unless they have over €2,000,000 in assets. Even then, the tax goes from 0.2% for assets 0-167,000 (that's over the 2 million allowance) up to over 10 and half million in assets over and above your 2 million allowance.

If your total wealth is above the allowances, take specialist advice on exactly how it will affect you and what your options are to reduce it as I doubt many on here will have the kind of assets to pay it.

 

 

Thread: Detail on Wealth Tax -

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12 Mar 2017 11:37 PM:

Off to Barbados tomorrow. Spending the Kids Inheritance.

 

Thread: BREXIT

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12 Mar 2017 11:23 PM:

You don't do reading posts very well, do you. I mentioned other pensions I paid into. Two government, 1 private, 1 state. You may not be the only one who made provisions for his later years (as I'm nearly 70 I think I can count myself in on that). I also pay almost 2k to the Spanish tax man as well but, then, I did make provisions. On top of that my savings which now earn a derisory amount in interest and have to pay taxes on but I didn't pee it all up a wall when I was younger (well, quite a lot of it I did but that's another matter). It's rather more than the figures you stated but I started a pension scheme when I was 18 so I think Its now time to enjoy it. 

Of course, according to you, I could get a job but I doubt climbing ladders to communications masts or humping hods of bricks around would be suitable for me at the moment. 

So. yes, the figures do add up. 

Thread: BREXIT

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12 Mar 2017 9:53 PM:

Rot and double rot. I worked for 42 years and paid National Insurance and tax for all that time. I still pay nearly £4000 a year in tax to the UK government. If you write to the Chancellor and ask him to give me all the contributions I paid over those years plus stop charging me tax then I will give up my state pension (which is going to raised the tax I already pay by some £600 in UK).

So, over a lifetime at current money, a person who has paid tens and tens of thousands of pounds into an insurance system has no right to any payment just because he's moved to Torremolinos yet a dole bludger or SE Asian who goes to UK to live and has never paid a penny into anything gets everything going?
Bloody Little Englander attitude if I might say.

 

Thread: BREXIT

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