Public Holidays in Spain

For a new company in Spain or an experience one, its impotant to be awared of the Public Holidays in the Country.  This will help you plan your year and find trends that could benefit your Business.

The Enterprise and Employment Department have just publish the official holydays in Spain:

• Friday 6 of January,  Kings (Reyes)
• Friday 6 of April, Good Friday (Viernes Santo)
• Monday 9 of April, Pascua (Pascua Florida)
• Tuesday 1 of May, Labor Day (Fiesta del Trabajo)
• Wednesday 15 of Agoust, (la Asunción)
• Tuesday 11 of September, Catalonya National Holiday (Fiesta Nacional de Cataluña)

Self-employed Entrepreneur in Spain

When you decide to start your company in Spain, you have several choices available. One of them is to become Self-Employed entrepreneur .

You should know that in Spain, the self-employed entrepreneur is a natural person who is able to excecute their business and economic activity with a contract, billing services offered.

Crisis in Spain: A good time to Start a Business!

Europe today is in crisis, no one can deny it. Spain, in this delicate situation, does not serve as an example. The crisis in Spain numerous activities and key people.

You should know that a period of economic crisis has two main drawbacks:

• The purchasing power of consumers is quite low and funding frozen.
• But many economists justify these times of crisis like the best times to take and create businesses.

The same is true of the crisis in Spain.

Now is the time to invest in Spanish Real Estate?

REAL ESTATE IN SPAIN

In spain the Real Estate have been crush by the crisis, but apart from being a big problem for many investors it´s an open door for new opportunities.  The  property prices have gone down significantly, and for those with credit or money in the pockets its time to make a move.

In the overall Real Estate Market, the decline have reach an average of 20% in real terms, and even more in the case of Properties in the side coast were values have downgraded around 40%.

VAT: DISTANCE SALES IN SPAIN

What is distance selling?

Distance sales are those sales that occur without the simultaneous physical presence of the buyer and seller.  When trading between the two parties, the proposed contract is transmitted from the seller to the buyer, who accepts by any means of distance communication. In the case of Europe, distance sales occur when a member of the EU, with a VAT number, trades with another member with out a VAT registered number.

Distance Sales Examples:

• Contract made by mail
• Contract made by phone
• Contract made by Television
• Contract made by radio

Distance sales generated to the State

If the value of the commercial transfer, projected throughout the calendar year exceeds or will exceed the amount of 35,000 euros for a Spanish company, the supplier must register the VAT in their own state, an take in consideration the VAT Spanish rate.

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How to create an invoice in Spain?

After creating your business in Spain, the first thing to know is how to write a bill in Spain. While this is not very different from other countries, it is interesting to know what to insert in the bill, and do not forget to mention the CIF of the two companies.

A bill in Spain is as follows:

• The name of your company, its registered office and CIF
• The name of the client company, its registered office and CIF
• A unique invoice number
• The name of the product or service, the unit price.
• The amount of the bill in three stages: the amount of VAT (TVA), the amount of VAT and the total amount.

CIF and NIF

CIF (Certificado de Identificación Fiscal): This is the tax ID number for all companies. It consists of a letter followed by 8 digits. The letter represents the type of company, the most common being an ‘A’ for Sociedad Anónima or a ‘B’ for Sociedad Limitada. For companies nonresident in Spain, the letter is ‘N’.

NIF (Número de Identificación Fiscal): This is the generic term for the tax ID number for all individuals. For Spaniards, it’s the DNI plus one letter; for foreigners, it is your NIE.

What is the NIE?

The NIE Number is a tax identification number in Spain, known in Spanish as the “Número de Identificación de Extranjero”.

The NIE Number itself is issued on a standard A4 page, with the recipients full name (as written on the passport used during the application process), their place of birth, their nationality, and the number itself, along with a stamp and signature provided by the National Police. The document is often used as a form of identification, and in many cases the original document is required (a copy is not sufficient)

Start a business in Spain: Understanding key Spanish term

When starting a business in Spain,  you will face many Spanish words at first difficult to understand. This article will enlighten you on these terms, explaining, for each of them, the French equivalent.

NIE (Numero de Identificación de Extranjeros): The NIE is the identification number of a foreigner in Spain. It is essential to Spain in order to create your company, paid work, open a bank account and almost all the paperwork.

You can get this NIE, whether European or not. This edition includes 8 or 9 characters and starts with an “X” or a “Y”.