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Owning property in Spain without living here
Five obligations, and not one of them warns you.
ReadThe modelo 210, explained from start to finish
Even if you never let it, your house files a return.
ReadThe 90/180 day rule, for property owners
The window moves. That is why days come back one at a time.
ReadLetting your house for a few days: what you need first
A listing without a registration number is an illegal listing.
ReadWhy the Spanish administration cannot find you
Everything is done online. And you do not have the key.
ReadInheriting a house in Spain while living abroad
The clock starts on the day of the death.
ReadThe local taxes on a house in Spain
This one is not the tax office, and it does not warn you.
ReadMaking a Spanish will as a foreign owner
Somebody else will use it, and you will not be there.
ReadDamp and water damage in a house that stays closed for months
The leak does not wait for you to come back, and neither does the insurance deadline.
ReadYour car in Spain when you do not live here: foreign or Spanish plates
The question is not how to register it. It is whether you have to.
ReadThe second occupancy declaration: when you will be asked for it
Owning the house is not what triggers it. Two moments do.
ReadYour first Spanish income tax return after becoming resident
In year one you declare everything, including what is paid abroad.
ReadWhen you become tax resident in Spain
Your TIE says where you live; the tax law says where you pay.
ReadThe modelo 720, for people who have settled in Spain
Once you are resident, what you left at home gets declared too.
ReadThe tax side of letting your home in Spain
A few weeks' letting is still declared, and the tax agency already knows.
ReadBecoming self-employed in Spain when you are not Spanish
Two registrations on the same day, then a calendar that never stops.
ReadSetting up a Spanish limited company as a foreigner
Five steps to be born, then annual accounts for life.
ReadThe second occupancy declaration in Torrevieja
A 17.50 euro fee, one form and a technician's certificate.
ReadHow to apply for a NIE as a property owner in Spain: what you need and in what order
The form is not the problem. The appointment is.
ReadHow to plan a viewing trip to the Costa Blanca South
Areas first, houses second.
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