tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3874137447740219052.post6499693677076790304..comments2024-03-15T20:22:06.967+01:00Comments on A View of Madrid: Not a quiet revolution.A View Of Madridhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08276030592377295471noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3874137447740219052.post-90531484357777701552011-07-26T12:10:26.245+02:002011-07-26T12:10:26.245+02:00Good article Richard as always you make good balan...Good article Richard as always you make good balanced arguements and I like how you refer to yourself as a "visitor" with an opinion. I think I´ll start doing the same.<br /><br />Graeme is right about setting up a business (sociedad limitada - S.L.)and if you use a gestor it´ll cost you about 1000€ in fees and taxes. I used the AJE to help me and it was a nightmare of paperwork and confusion. That´s probably why Spain is ranked 49th in the world below Armenia in the "Doing Business Report" of how easy it is to do business in a country. See ranking http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ease_of_Doing_Business_Index#Ranking<br /><br />I would add that the red tape is a real pain, but by far the biggest obstacle to setting up a business in Spain is the social stigma attached to failure. Parents and friends make it hard for those wanting to start a business. <br /><br />Also we need to ask ourselves why only 3-4% of University Students want to be entreprenuers and more than 70% want to be funcionarios.Chris Wrighthttp://www.thepracticeoffice.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3874137447740219052.post-82179315604051520652011-06-29T14:29:09.099+02:002011-06-29T14:29:09.099+02:00It's a really nice trip!It's a really nice trip!Villanyszerelőhttp://pkvillanyszereles.hunoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3874137447740219052.post-2325364469627096792011-06-21T13:48:55.375+02:002011-06-21T13:48:55.375+02:00The €3000 is the minimum capital you need to set u...The €3000 is the minimum capital you need to set up a sociedad limitada -it's not a payment. There are payments to be made to notaries etc as part of the process. To be honest, I don't see what sort of company you are going to set up if you don't have that sort of capital available. If you want to be self-employed but without a company then you just register as an autonomo (freelance). The social security payments cited are the minimum, which is what almost every autonomo in Spain pays until they get within the age range when their final pension entitlement is calculated - at which point they have to decide whether to massively increase their payments to try and get a decent pension. It's a bit of a silly system because the base payment doesn't really give entitlement to anything.Graemehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05948656158638818739noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3874137447740219052.post-55978335049063491432011-06-20T23:32:24.297+02:002011-06-20T23:32:24.297+02:00I've never heard of this 3000 € that must be p...I've never heard of this 3000 € that must be paid when starting your own business - I started my own three years ago, going through all the legal paperwork, and neither the income tax office nor the social security people have ever mentioned it to me. <br /><br />Social security payments for the self-employed are a flat rate of 250 € a month, regardless of what you earn (until you go over a million euros a year, when there's some kind of special tax - I don't think that's ever going to be a problem for me). I don't think that's a crippling amount of money, or even very high, compared to other countries.Pueblo girlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04904318623281033442noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3874137447740219052.post-34335323181171355612011-06-20T21:43:22.534+02:002011-06-20T21:43:22.534+02:00We're all up for 'learning to live togethe...We're all up for 'learning to live together' unless this 'togetherness' starts to impinge on our own want/needs/wishes. All of a sudden we all live together 'except of course for .....<br />Enough said!Marynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3874137447740219052.post-79042254494281908962011-06-20T19:32:49.192+02:002011-06-20T19:32:49.192+02:00I'm all for learning to live together - noise,...I'm all for learning to live together - noise, protests, you name it....except of course the smoking part. These last six months have been bliss! Por fin!Erinhttp://www.latortugaviajera.com/noreply@blogger.com