This article focuses on the rules concerning the emergency measures to assist people during the Covid-19 crisis, in particular the rules that enable people to benefit from the mortgage payment moratorium. This measure was incorporated into the Law 8/2020 of 17th March, which introduced urgent and extraordinary measures to support the economy to face the … Read more
There is considerable confusion concerning which activities are authorised and which are prohibited. To help avoid confusion here is an actual copy of the lock down instructions that are being used by the Guardia Civil and the municipal police and a literal English translation. These have been in force since 14 March. The press has … Read more
To date, the provisions incorporated into new tax legislation to help businesses during the Covid-19 crisis are not particularly wide-ranging. In this article we describe these in full. Postponement of tax payments available to small businesses All businesses whose sales for the year ended 31 December 2019 were less than 6.010.121,04€ have the right to … Read more
In normal circumstances the temporary closure of a business or the substantial modification of employee working conditions is a slow, complex and expensive process. The Spanish system seems to be designed to catch out employers and an insignificant error in the formalities can undo the whole process, with very expensive consequences. In general terms, where … Read more
For many weeks we have all been observing the outbreak of this disease with a kind of detached fascination – but reality has finally struck home in Spain. With effect from 14 March, the Government declared a ‘State of Alarm’ using legislation that dates back to 1981. This allows the Administration extraordinary powers for the … Read more
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