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What is the Beckham Law in Spain? How expats can make BIG savings on income tax

TAXES are complicated enough in your home country, but when you’re working abroad they can get even stickier. Fortunately, foreigners working in Spain can...

This is currently the best mortgage available in Spain, according to Idealista

THE major rise in the cost of living that residents of Spain have seen since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has been exacerbated by a...

This expat hotspot on the Costa Blanca wants to become Spain’s first ‘crypto-friendly’ city – but what does that...

TORREVIEJA has unveiled plans to become Spain's first cryptocurrency-friendly city. The Costa Blanca resort hopes to achieve that goal through an initiative launched by the...

The Body Shop goes into administration with thousands of jobs at risk – but will its stores in Spain...

THE Body Shop, that bastion of British body beauty, has announced it has entered into administration, casting a shadow of uncertainty over 2,000 jobs...

On the rise: Erotic toy start-up in Spain rakes in MILLIONS as customers splurge on their unique designs ahead...

A COMPANY making and distributing erotic toys on the Costa Blanca has become a major success story and is currently enjoying a boom period...

EXCLUSIVE: Meet the textile factory challenging fast fashion in Spain and reviving Malaga’s ‘lost art’

FOR Juan Carlos Vera Garcia, business is part of his ‘DNA’.  His father owned the first ever industrial bakery in Teba, a small town near...

Spain suspends fines for Amazon and Apple: Tech giants have more time to fight €194m sanctions

THE National Court has temporarily suspended massive fines given to Amazon and Apple by Spain's competition watchdog- the CNMC- over collusion. The international giants will...

Live-in care: The preferred care option offering a personalised service

IT’S a difficult enough time when you realise an elderly parent or close relative needs care. Let alone arranging this when you live overseas. With...

Santander bank plummets by 5% on Spain’s stock exchange amid reports it was used by Iran to avoid international...

SPAIN’S largest bank, Banco Santander, saw 5% of its value wiped off in the Spanish stock market on Monday, after the Financial Times reported...

H&M to close a QUARTER of its stores in Spain

FASHION retailer H&M has announced plans on Friday to close more than a quarter of its shops in Spain. The Swedish-owned business says up to...

Gibraltar tax crackdown: British territory to make insurance and blockchain businesses ‘contribute fairly to the nation’s wellbeing’

AN update in tax law will make sure insurance and DLT blockchain businesses based in Gibraltar ‘contribute fairly to the nation’s well-being’, the government...

Major Spanish hotel chain blasts Brexit for ‘forcing it to raise salaries’ as it struggles to find workers for...

BREXIT might finally be seeing some green shoots as one of Mallorca’s flagship companies has had to raise wages for their workers in the...

Do you smoke in Spain? These are the new costs of cigarettes, tobacco and other products following a price...

THE price of cigarettes in Spain is famously low, especially when compared to the whopping £15 (€17.55) that a smoker pays for a pack...

Aldi is expanding across Spain: Budget supermarket announces 50 new store openings this year

GERMAN discount supermarket chain Aldi says it plans to open nearly 50 new stores in Spain this year. To back its expansion, the retailer will...

Outrage as huge gym is forced to close in Spain’s Marbella: British expats are among members with items locked...

STAFF and members of a huge gym in Marbella have been left concerned and outraged after the establishment suddenly closed its doors without warning,...

Spanish shoppers are fuming after seeing Spain-packaged olive oil selling for MUCH cheaper in the UK – but is...

SPANISH shoppers contending with olive oil setting them back as much as €10 a litre have been raging at their staple food product being...

Companies on Spain’s Costa del Sol ‘lack ambition or initiative’ and are ‘handicapped by poor English language skills’, claims...

MALAGA entrepreneurs unwilling or able to communicate effectively in the language of Shakespeare are reportedly missing a trick in the business world where ‘the...

Olive oil crisis laid bare: These are the devastating factors behind a shock 50% fall in production of Spain’s...

IT is known as liquid gold among Spaniards. But the country’s olive oil industry has suffered a series of environmental calamities which have cut...

These are the 3 best variable rate mortgages in Spain for 2024, according to experts

TO FIX or vary is the key question asked by people applying for a home mortgage in Spain, with a mixture of both also...

Rent control arrives to Spain in February: This region will be the first to implement the measure amid record-high...

AS rental prices have been soaring prohibitively across Spain, Catalonia is set to be the first to step in and, from February, put controls...

Carrefour announces it will stop selling all PepsiCo products in Spain – this is why

FRENCH supermarket giant Carrefour has announced that it is to pull all PepsiCo products from its stores in Spain, France, Italy and Belgium, for...

Spanish airline Iberia to hold last-ditch meeting with unions today in bid to halt ground staff strikes that will...

SPANISH AIRLINE Iberia is holding last-ditch talks today with unions in a bid to halt a series of strikes by ground staff that are...

Zara founder Amancio Ortega, 87, splashes €35 million on TWO boutique hotels in Spain’s Mallorca

THE BILLIONAIRE founder of the Inditex fashion group, Amancio Ortega, has purchased two boutique hotels on Spain’s Balearic island of Mallorca for €35 million....

Iberia strikes latest: Airline bosses will meet with trade unions in last-ditch attempt to prevent Spain-wide walkouts in early...

REPRESENTATIVES from Spanish airline Iberia will be meeting with some of Spain’s biggest unions on Thursday in a last-ditch attempt to stop a planned...

WATCH: American expat in Spain is shocked by how much he can buy with $20 in Mercadona

REGULAR users of video-sharing social network TikTok in Spain will no doubt have been served videos this year of American residents of Spain running...

Iberia strikes back on: Here are the dates that air travel in Spain will be affected by the ground...

BARELY days after unions had announced that they would not be calling strikes for Spanish airline Iberia’s ground staff, the stoppages are back on....

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