13 Nov 2013 6:18 PM:

Governments are unbelievable.  I am classed as a nutter when I say that I cannot distinguish between gangsters and governments.  It's true, they both have the same agenda.

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13 Nov 2013 4:32 PM:

Hi norm de plume,

 That's great and really good work.  What do you book against letting expenses, particularly whrn your argument is that you do not let?  I am only too happy to complain to my MEP, if I can find him.

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12 Nov 2013 1:00 AM:

" You pay tax on all sorts of things including INCOME"  My lawyers point is, if you have no income, you have no tax.    On the 210 form you are charged tax under section 2 Income from urban property.  The point is we have no income, therefore no tax liability.  They can't just invent an income for you, but they do.  Where is the legality or suggested confusion in that?

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11 Nov 2013 10:18 PM:

The fact that this is a pay as you earn tax says it all.  You pay tax on what you earn, if you do not lease your apartment you simply do not earn and therefore you have no tax liability.  The fact that the Spanish authorities impose this tax on an assumption that you do rent out has no basis in law. I am no lawyer, simply passing on information given to me by my Spanish lawyer.

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11 Nov 2013 7:45 PM:

The correct option is:-

02 Income from urban property.

We are all in the same boat.  This is an illegal tax, it is a pay as you earn tax, which by definition means that you pay tax on your earnings.  We do not let out, therefore have no income, however the Spanish athorities assume we do that is why you have to apply the formula to work out your tax liability on non earnings.  According to my lawyer the Spanish government have been advised that this is an unlawful tax by the EU.  Unlike the UK government the Spanish told the EU to get notted.  My lawyer advised that we do not have to pay it, then added if we don't, should we choose to sell the Spanish will give us all sorts of problems.

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