Ever since the “big shake up” of 2013 when Social Security finally started to pay attention to business owners and decided to make it a little easier to set-up a business by reducing monthly contributions during the first 18 months, corporate administrators have demanded to be heard as said reductions did not apply to them.
In this day and age with the way the economic situation is, it is not uncommon for business owners to insist that prospective employees register themselves as self-employed instead of giving them a work contract. There are some employment categories that simply won’t allow for this such as wait staff, chefs and similar but others facilitate this type of registry. What does it mean when somebody registers as self-employed but only has one “client”?
In a shock discovery by the Tribunal de Cuentas (Accounts Tribunal), it would appear that not even death is cause enough for Social Security to stop pension payments. It has been reported that in the year 2014, Social Security erroneously made monthly payments to some 29.321 persons who had already been registered by the Civil Registry as deceased. This means that an approximate sum of 25,2 million euros was paid out each month to the accounts of people who should obviously not be receiving it. The situation was not resolved by 2015 as 27.860 continued to be registered as pensioners on Social Security’s database.
Purchasing a property in a foreign country can seem like a minefield as you try to understand the differences between the process you know and a new one you entrust a professional to advise you about. One of the questions that often arises is, who is responsible for payment of council rates? First of all, lets define what council rates are.
So after a little hiatus due to website technical difficulties, I’M BACK and ready to keep the articles coming. At the moment I’m sat at the Canarian Tax Office waiting my turn to settle property taxes on behalf of clients (with The Prodigy blasting over my headphones to keep the brain juices flowing!) plus a million and one things I know I have to process, what with tax season again and other services on the go, it got me to thinking about how sole-traders keep it together. Face it, it’s not just a working day we have to battle to organize, we also have to balance our home and personal lives and it can become a challenge.
With that in mind, I just HAD to translate and share this article written by Xavi Puig for “The Mundo Today”. If the title didn’t immediately catch your attention, the rest of the article definitely will and if you have the same sense of humour, it will make you laugh until you cry! So here goes, I’ve translated the article because it must be shared to help combat Friday Blues, or if you’re self-employed like me, Everyday Blues!
