Isnt it time for a new meet??

Anyone else read this?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/property/main.jhtml?xml=/property/2007/05/12/pcosta112.xml

Andy

Buckinghamshire

Hi all

 I sent a copy to Christine at Casa Blanca real estate for Information regarding the cutting in the Daily Telegraph.

Dear Andy,

I have been trying to find out the situation about the licence they mention
you should need to rent out the property to tourists. Nobody seems to know
anything. I approached our tax adviser and he will enquire with the Junta de
Andalucía (the government of the community of Andalusia). He reckons that
the situation might be different from area to area, since these matters are
regulated by the "Comunidad" (= Andalusia, Catalonia, Bask Country,
Baleares, etc.), not by the Spanish State.

As a non resident owning a property in Spain you have to fill in a tax
declaration every year, even if you don't rent it out and pay a tax that is
based on the official value. Obviously if you do have a rental income you
are supposed to pay tax on it. If you would like to enquire about the fiscal
procedure, following please find the details of our tax adviser who I can
highly recommend:

Gestoría Bravo
Avda. de Condes de San Isidro 23, 1º
29640 Fuengirola (Málaga)
Tel. +34 952473062/66. Fax +34 952462006
http://www.gestoriabravo.es
info@gestoriabravo.es

As soon as I have news regarding this special licence, I will get back to
you

Kind regards

Christine Mollet
Case Blanca Real Estate

Hope this is of some value

Regards Andy

Eye on Spain have written the following on this issue:-

All the talk last week was about The Telegraph's latest Spain scare story (they seem to enjoy these).  If you missed it it was about the fact that if your urbanisation does not have a tourism licence then you are breaking the law if your rent your property out. 

The truth is that this law only applies to Mallorca and some other Balearic islands, so most of you have nothing to worry about.  If you want to read all the comments about this then read the forum discussion at:  http://www.eyeonspain.com/forums/posts.aspx?thread=1225