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Tax on booze and fags up, no payments over €1000 in cash

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The government has announced an important change to a law, and a new budget modification for this Friday. On the one hand, the law limiting payments in cash of over €2,500 will be changed to drop this to just €1,000. This means it will be illegal to pay bills over €1,000 in cash when one of the participants is a fiscal entity (company). And large companies (and those who file their IVA return on a Continue reading Tax on booze and fags up, no payments over €1000 in cash→

Senior Junta politician cracks under police pressure and admits 270 million euro theft

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The sheer amount of money stolen by the Andalucian politicians over the last decade is immense. So far, we’re talking billions of euros, mainly of EU cash. Nobody seems to care very much, but it is a fairly enormous scandal. Basically, for every euro the EU sent Andalucia over the last 20 years or so, the politicians seem to have happily, and with no real comeback, pocketed whatever percentage they wanted to. Anyway, Carlos Cañavate, Continue reading Senior Junta politician cracks under police pressure and admits 270 million euro theft→

Woohoo! A free netbook from my bank! Errrr…..

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Where’s my microscope? So, if I domicile my nomina for 36 months, each nomina being over €1,200 with Openbank, they will give me a free netbook worth (in the very very small print) €248.79. Sooooo….. Frankly I can’t be bothered to work out the rate. But if I dumped the whole lot in a yearly period at 1% interest over three years (36 months) I’d get about €850 back in interest. So yes, I know, Continue reading Woohoo! A free netbook from my bank! Errrr…..→