El blog de Maria

 Just a link on this great heart:

http://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/profile.aspx?facId=326229

Enjoy as a kid!

Love,

Maria

The village Espera, from the Castle "Fatetar", Cádiz, Southwest of Spain

 Like in Europe, like in North America, like in many other latinamerican countries. The simple problem in Brazil these days is lack of civic virtues and values at the personal level. All included: politicians but also professionals, educators, parents, athletes, students....

We lost our bearings by thinking that life was all about consuming. These-- corruption and subsequent protests all over the world-- are the present social and political consequences, after the hypercorrupted times of over financing and the so-old-now economic crisis!

But we can certainly keep hopes up as right/joyful orientation is being born and spread out :

I enjoyed listening to this Harvard Professor today: 

Caños de Meca, Cádiz, Southwest of Spain

From the forum. Pinot is asking:  

My property in Spain is in the name of myself and my two sons.  Should I die would they not be the owners of the property as it is in both their names???

Some guidance on this would be much appreciated.  We also have Spanish wills drawn up to leave the property to the survivors.

Pinot

Our reply there: 

Pinot:

Once you die, your sons will have to start the title transference to their names.

If you have Spanish wills which do not contravene the UK one ( if there were one), the Notary will authorise a new deed where property shares are transmitted to your sons according to that Spanish Will. Just is you are spanish resident, having estate asset just in Spain, UK law will have no intereference in the process.

Once this new deed is obtained, taxes are paid and their new property shares are registered in the Land Registry.

Yous sons will be paying Inheritance taxes in proportion to the value of the shares they are acquiring

Hope it helps!

Zahara de la Sierra, Cádiz, Southwest of Spain

THE PLENARY OF THE FIRST CHAMBER OF THE SUPREME COURT HAS RESOLVED THE PETITION FOR CLARIFICATION OF ITS JUDGMENT OF 9 MAY 2013 ABOUT THE SO-CALLED “GROUND CLAUSES”

1.   In the judgment  it declared null the clauses judged because of  the concurrence of the following circumstances:

a)  * The creation of the appearance of a loan contract to a variable interest in which the oscillations of the reference rate toward the low, will affect a decrease in the price of money.

b)   *The lack of sufficient information that it is a defining element of the main object of the contract.

c)   *The creation of  the appearance that the “ground”  has as an indivisible compensation the fixing of a “roof”

d) * Its location among an overwhelming amount of data among which are hidden and which blur the attention of consumers in the case of those used by BBVA.

   *Lack of simulations of different scenarios related to reasonably foreseeable behavior of the interest rate at the time of contracting, in pre-contractual phase.

f)  *Absence of a previous, clear and understandable warning about the comparative cost with other products of the same entity.

- Credit institutions wanted that it was declared  that, for the declaration of the nullity of the ground clauses, it was necessary that all these  circumstances concurred

- The Supreme Court states that it is not necessary that all these circumstances concur simultaneously and that the perfect knowledge of the clause, its importance and impact on the performance of the contract, in order to allow consumers to take their economic decision after having been dutifully reported, is a result that can not be substituted for the compliance of formalities lacking  of efficacy in this sense -reading by the Notary, etc. -.

-SC  also states that ground clauses may be null although the consumer had been benefited for a time by the fall of the reference rate.

-Supreme Court also states that rest of the contract subsist and that this decission has NO RETROACTIVE effect.

El Gastor, Cádiz, South of Spain       

The Comprehensive Plan of Support to Competitiveness of Retail Trade 2013, a mixture of measures aimed to try to improve the competitiveness of the retail trade, has just been approved in Spain.

It was also decided to modify the Aid Fund for Domestic Trade to make available to entrepreneurs 28.68 million euros to support their investments and provide liquidity for current expenses.

This Plan is organized in ten lines of action and thirty measures, some of which have already been put into operation in 2012, targeted to the following sections:

·        Innovation and competitiveness of small businesses

·        Promoting open trade centers and municipal markets

·        Financial support to  businesses

·        The trade promotion and revival of demand

·        The boost to generational relief and entrepreneurs

·        Exploiting the synergies between trade and tourism

·        Improving commercial security

·        Legislative measures to boost trade activity and eliminating obstacles to start the activity

·        Supporting the internationalization of Spanish trade

·        Improving training and job creation in the commercial sector

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Beach of El Cañuelo, Tarifa, Cádiz, Southwest of Spain

 1.- Capital Gains Tax: http://www.agenciatributaria.es/AEAT.internet/Inicio_en_GB/English/Non_residents/Non_resident_Income_Tax/Non_resident_Income_Tax/Non_residents_with_no_permanent_establishment/Basic_taxation_issues/General_system_for_taxation_of_capital_gains.shtml

The buyer needs to pay 3% of property price into the Local Tax Office ( using model 211). After sending a copy of this payment to the seller, this can claim any excess within 3 months, using model 212 before Local Tax Office.

2.- Plusvalia:

 (Local Capital Gains Tax) named in spanish Impuesto sobre el Incremento del Valor de los Terrenos de Naturaleza Urbana is a municipal tax on the increase in the value of the urban land since the last recorded transfer

The tax obliged is the buyer.

Taxable amount or based is obtained by applying a rate, different for each municipality, to the value of the property at the time of the transfer, the number of years that the previous owner had the house is also taken into consideration.  The more years the less tax burden.

 

There is a tax relief if you reinvest money from the sale of an urban house into another main address, the relief will consider the amount of reinvested money. 

 

It must be paid within 30 days from the signature of the sales deed, or within 6 months in case of inheritance.

3.- Notary and Registry expenses: Unless agreed differently. Notary costs are to be paid by seller but one copy of the deeds which will be paid by the buyer. Buyer will pay Registry expenses

 

 

Bornos, Cadiz, Southwest of Spain

 

 

 

 http://www.robinsharma.com/pdf/lwatm.pdf

Yes, go for it. Know yourself and find what you can do as an artist!

Maria

"Castle of Sancti Petri", Cádiz, Southwest of Spain

Read some of him today and found it " unmissable"

Enjoy and create... that´s life and working about.

• You can really Lead Without a Title.
• Knowing what to do and not doing it is the same as not knowing what to do.
• Give away what you most wish to receive.
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• Leadership is no longer about position – but passion. It’s no longer about image but impact. This is Leadership 2.0.
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• The more you worry about being applauded by others and making money, the less you’ll focus on doing the great work that will generate applause. And make you money.
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• The real reward for doing your best work is not the money you make but the leader you become.
• Passion + production = performance.
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• Stand for something. Or else you’ll fall for anything.
• Say “thank you” when you’re grateful and “sorry” when you’re wrong.
• Make the work you are doing today better than the work you did yesterday.
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- See more at: http://www.robinsharma.com/blog/09/robins-73-best-business-and-success-lessons/#sthash.vnlSQ4ji.dpuf

Castellar Viejo y Embalse de Guadarranque, Cádiz, South of Spain, by Javier Marquez Ayllón

 The European Parliament (EP) calls on national governments to introduce payment in kind ( dacion en pago- keys back to Banks) for families in bankruptcy

Yes... thank YOU!

Sun in Spain... gorgeous! Come and live here!

Maria

Beach of San Fernando, Cádiz, Southwest of Spain.

Very wise, very sensitive, very modern, very pro-solution

Congratulations to our client and  to Cajamar too. 

Great new to start the weekend with!

Maria

Beach "Valdevaqueros", Tarifa, Cadiz, South of Spain

Always take this into account:

Banks are legally obligued to give to your property a minimum value when repossessing it.

This minimum value is now ( after May 15th, 2013), of 70% if it is your first residency and 50% ( if it is not) OF a VALUE which comprises:

Valuation of prinicipal of mortgage loan

Interests

Delay Interests

Legal costs

Much higher, generally, that the market value of the property.

As a matter of fact, there is very low property market in Spain, because... the whole market is controlled by Banks at present. So, enfocing  this Mortgage Debt AId  Law is the most sensible and fair thing to do as there is really no other way to participate in the...if you can call it so:  "property market"

Previous posts of this serie here

The church of San Antonio, Cadiz, Southwest of Spain

It is a while I know of this initiative and am looking forward to have you  participating on this... We have prepared a small abstract on their mission:

The rural environment has been facing for decades one of the most serious problems that a territory may suffer: the loss of population. This fact curtails severely the possibilities of development of villages because in addition to reducing the number of neighbors those who are going away are, mainly, women and trained people.

Groups of the civil society, mayors, and social-economic agents and, in general, the rural residents have been mobilizing to prevent the threat of closure of the school, the loss of services such as health care, the postman or the closure of small shops.

However, the attempts to fix population and to attract new residents to municipalities have been carried out, sometimes, without the proper tools to ensure the success of the initiatives. Therefore, in order to find practical solutions and to corroborate them with other territories, in 2001 it is created the project ANER on Transnational Cooperation by Rural Development Groups from different Spanish Autonomous Communities and the French region of Limousin. Its work materialized later in the project EMBRACE THE EARTH.

These Groups of Social Action had seen during more than 10 years of work in rural areas, how new inhabitants settled in their villages, many of them entrepreneurs. At the same time, they had been spectators and protagonists of important social changes, both in rural environment and in the general system of values. To the new opportunities of business that arise in the villages, resulting from the improvement  of the infrastructures  and new communication systems, are  joined  new social trends that prefer the quality of life and prioritize rural values ​​

In the presence of this reality and from the analysis of the previous failures and successes when fixing and attracting population to the territories, extracting the best from each experience, the eighteen rural development groups designed an action model to facilitate the arrival and integration of new residents entrepreneurs to rural areas. EMBRACE THE EARTH addresses with uniqueness of criteria in the fifteen groups the welcome of new inhabitants, systematizing and adapting to each reality a process that promotes population settlement in rural areas:

1.    -Creating a Network of Welcome Offices for New Settlers-Entrepreneurs, which main function is to inform, advise and support the new resident entrepreneur trying to combine his personal and business needs with the resources of the environment.

2.   -Carrying out mediation functions, preparing the welcome of the New Settlers-Entrepreneurs, promoting the awareness of the local population and the interagency coordination.

3.   - Encouraging the transferability of good practices in the processes of Settlement of Population in rural areas

         We are developing collaboration work with Abraza la Tierra, so, anyone interested on knowing more, please contat us

Full PDF info here: http://www.abrazalatierra.com/extras/comunicacion/Embrace_the_Land_2004_2008.pdf.                       

       Beach "Los Lances", Tarifa, Cadiz, Southwest of Spain.

How do you think the creation of a defaulting tenants national registry help?

It seems the objective is to control professional defaulters... rather than people under financial difficulties...

Setenil de las Bodegas, Cadiz, South of Spain, by Brian Burnett, at facebook