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Hi Bottomp,

To start a business you will need to use a gestor to register your business name to become and SC company(partnership).

It is not worth becoming an SL (LTD) on this scale as your costs to run such a company will outweigh the benefits.

This will then allow you to operate your business on a self employed basis ie claiming for all expenses including any mortgages you have and also living expenses.

You wil find it very very very hard to run a legal taxi service in Spain,licenecs are supplied by the Town halls and you have to work through them after taking a course in Spanish.

All the guys that advertise airport runs in the local bars and press are doing this illegally and for cash,if you get caught by the authorities or worse the Taxi drivers,who pay an awful lot for their licences there will be dire consequences.

I saw 4 taxi drivers surround once such guy at the airport and slash his tyres,i have also seen another driver follow someone back to their house and a few days later the car was burnt out.

So be aware!!!!!

It is fairly easy to set a business up here but you do have to use the right people at the right time.

As estate agents we have to have a licence to carry people from the airport on pick ups for completions etc... this covers insurance and legalities.

Regards

Georgia

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Hi,

You can take a look in the costa blanca news today, www.costablancanews.es

There is an article in there this week about how an Englishman set up his own taxi service in the inland village of Castalla. The article is in Costa Folk colum. You can also visit his web site www.castallataxis.com

Hopefully you can get a few pointers from this.

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You wil find it very very very hard to run a legal taxi service in Spain,licenecs are supplied by the Town halls and you have to work through them after taking a course in Spanish.

I was told this weekend that the chances of getting a taxi licence if you are not Spanish is between slim and none. does Spain have a Private hire equivalent which is for pre- arranged bookings only and not hackney? I had thought about buying a mini bus (in the future) and registering it correctly, as I have a PSV, to carry out shared airport runs, but not sure how I would go about that.

I also thought about opening an aquarium store as I am sure the expat community would enjoy keeping fish, just as they do in the UK. I haven't seen that much demand for it though as the only shop I saw in Aguilas had shut down!

Mark

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Hi MARK,

I looked into this once for an ex taxi driver who was moving over.

It is bordering on the impossible to do this individually,everything has to be done through the town hall and the licences are very expensive.

It has always been a niggle here for me as there are never enough cabs and even the Spanish moan about it.

I read something in the press last year with the taxi drivers in San Miguel moaning that they had to literally work 24 hours a day to keep up and there was only 3 of them in the town.

I was told by a lawyer that there is a way around it by acting as a chauffeur service and in essence private hire but i never pursued it.

As far as the aquarium shop goes,i am a keen tropical fish keeper and there are a few around me but nowhwere near the quality that we used to have in the UK.

It is a very popular pastime here and i think you would attract quite a few people in the right area,the thing that is nearly non existent is marine fish,out of the five shops near me i have only ever seen a handful of clownfish and not much more.

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A niche in the market then for marines? That could be interesting. Not sure about corals and stuff though as making the water for them would be wasteful, and I am sure that wold be frowned upon. Timke to get my head into a few books to find out more information. I'm on a crusade .

Mark

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i have always fancied keeping marines but the time and effort it takes to keep them has always put me off slightly.

I had a friend in the UK who had 8 tanks on the go and i am sure he never slept as everytime i was around there he was constantly tending them.

I transported my 6 foot tropical tank when i first came over here but even that keeps me busy as the water here seems to green up a lot quicker.

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Marines are not difficult at all if you do it right. Start off with a nano (small tank), a few kgs of live rock and a couple of clowns, shrimps, crabs and snails. You'll be amazed what comes out of the rockwork! You can buy tanks ready to go for marine in all price rages now, but you do get what you pay for. My small tank was £120 with everything except the livestock. It is pretty pants, but an exceelent starter to the marine side of the hobby.

The water going green is more to do with the amount of light the tank gets and the nutrients in the water. With the strength of the sun in Spain and the length of the days, if you also have a light over the top it may be too much. If you have genrally poor water quality out of the tap, then the water in the aquarium is going to suffer anyway. Perhaps you could get a small UV designed for pond use. That will help remove the algae spores in the water by disrupting their cell structure and forcing them to clump together, they can then be removed by your filter.

Anyway, to get back on topic. If I was to advertise the service as a "Chauffered airport transfer service" I could get away with it? Failing that, I would have to register as an agent .

Mark

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hi georgia, re your post below, 

As estate agents we have to have a licence to carry people from the airport on pick ups for completions etc... this covers insurance and legalities.

I was under the impression that you need SP plates and permission from the airport authorities to pick up anyone other than friends and family so i would be most interested to know what the licence is that you have and where it can be obtained from.

Thanks
Roy

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