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Forum: Spain
Jul 13th 2012, 4:15 am
Replies: 50
Views: 5,804
Posted By Stillwater

Re: High Electric Bill

Heating water for showers and baths costs a lot of electricity.
Has anyone installed a low-tech solar boiler?
(I don't mean one equipped with solar panels.)
Forum: Spain
Jun 21st 2012, 7:09 pm
Replies: 8
Views: 1,495
Posted By Stillwater

Re: Amendments to a Spanish Escritura

My lawyer advised me to photograph the (many) deficiencies of the house I bought, just in case Hacienda thinks the official transaction price was made lower in order to evade taxes.

I don't know...
Forum: Spain
Jun 17th 2012, 11:24 pm
Replies: 24
Views: 7,056
Posted By Stillwater

Re: Married autonomos

That's right: if you sell diamonds, mount them on a skull. Then it's called art and you don't have to pay IVA :lol:.
Forum: Spain
Jun 17th 2012, 9:43 pm
Replies: 24
Views: 7,056
Posted By Stillwater

Re: Married autonomos

Thanks angiescarr, for your advise and your best wishes.

It is quite true that accounting is not my favourite passtime :thumbdown:.
I'm surprised you talk about IVA... I'm pretty sure artists...
Forum: Spain
Jun 17th 2012, 7:44 am
Replies: 24
Views: 7,056
Posted By Stillwater

Re: Married autonomos

Here is a funny movie about the bureaucracy encountered when registering as an autonomo:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXWZ3uAEKsw&feature=player_embedded#!
Forum: Spain
Jun 13th 2012, 4:51 am
Replies: 58
Views: 6,232
Posted By Stillwater

Re: Declaring income

No, she is right: an upright socialist type never does anything wrong!
Forum: Spain
Jun 13th 2012, 1:28 am
Replies: 6
Views: 1,604
Posted By Stillwater

Re: Fires in La Safor

Oh boy, I hope the firefighters can prevent the fire from entering the Serpis valley:
http://www.elmundo.es/elmundo/2012/06/13/valencia/1339591332.html
Forum: Spain
Jun 11th 2012, 12:24 am
Replies: 2
Views: 713
Posted By Stillwater

Re: Natural pool

Luckily, fish love to eat their larvae.
Forum: Spain
Jun 10th 2012, 9:53 am
Replies: 2
Views: 713
Posted By Stillwater

Natural pool

Has anyone tried to buid some sort of natural pool. Or should I call it a pond?

I don't want to use chlorine and don't want to refresh the water every now and then. Birds, frogs, fish and insects...
Forum: Spain
Jun 10th 2012, 9:35 am
Replies: 35
Views: 3,601
Posted By Stillwater

Re: Buying a car

Can anyone recommend a 2nd hand car dealer in the Oliva area?
Forum: Spain
Jun 2nd 2012, 10:35 pm
Replies: 8
Views: 12,320
Posted By Stillwater

Re: Villalonga-Valencia

My wife and I bought a townhouse in Villalonga two months ago, but we do not yet live there because we still have to sell our house in Amsterdam which is proving to be difficult...

At least four...
Forum: Spain
May 16th 2012, 10:04 am
Replies: 29
Views: 3,297
Posted By Stillwater

Re: liquids in hand luggage

Exactly!! All that alcohol bought at the airport, and stored in the hand-luggage compartments in the planes, is highly combustible.
And the glass bottles themselves... break one, and you have a...
Forum: Spain
May 16th 2012, 9:39 am
Replies: 24
Views: 7,056
Posted By Stillwater

Re: Married autonomos

Thanks Cricketman; I appreciate your advise.
Forum: Spain
May 16th 2012, 3:09 am
Replies: 24
Views: 7,056
Posted By Stillwater

Re: Married autonomos

It is quite common that a starting business is not profitable for a year or even several years, especially when the economy is bad...
Forum: Spain
May 16th 2012, 2:07 am
Replies: 24
Views: 7,056
Posted By Stillwater

Re: Married autonomos

Only 50 Euro??? That's a bargain!
But I don't want it because I don't want the Spanish state to finance my household.
Forum: Spain
May 16th 2012, 2:01 am
Replies: 24
Views: 7,056
Posted By Stillwater

Re: Married autonomos

If it can be done electronically or by mail, I will do it myself. Filling in zero's is not much different in English than in Spanish :lol:.
If it involves hours of queueing I will hire a gestor, as...
Forum: Spain
May 16th 2012, 1:52 am
Replies: 24
Views: 7,056
Posted By Stillwater

Re: Married autonomos

If I am not mistaken, not only my wife, but I (as autonomo) am not entitled to sick leave and unemployment payments as well. IMO justly so because the system would otherwise be too susceptible to...
Forum: Spain
May 16th 2012, 1:23 am
Replies: 321
Views: 18,755
Posted By Stillwater

Re: The power of prayer

There is not much that can be proven. But if one claims something extraordinary, the least one ought to do is to show the likelyhood of it.
C.f. The celestial teapot :...
Forum: Spain
May 15th 2012, 9:28 pm
Replies: 24
Views: 7,056
Posted By Stillwater

Re: Married autonomos

This advise is much appreciated Spainrico :thumbup:.

Both of us will sculpt and paint, but one of us will run the shop as 'autonomo'. If the shop turns out to be successful, we are more than happy...
Forum: Spain
May 15th 2012, 5:11 am
Replies: 24
Views: 7,056
Posted By Stillwater

Re: Married autonomos

Rosemary : thank you for the warm welcome.

Cricketman and Spainrico : thank you for your answers.



I am also quite certain that the overheads will exceed the profit.
However, when only one...
Forum: Spain
May 14th 2012, 4:46 am
Replies: 24
Views: 7,056
Posted By Stillwater

Married autonomos

My wife and I will be moving to the Valencia province soon. We are both artists (ceramic sculptures and paintings).
We will be living on savings until we will be old enough to be entitled to some...
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