Thursday, June 9th, 2011
In summer, the tourist season reaches its peak recurrence phenomenon of illegal apartments that are rented out to foreigners and holydays makers. Only in July and August, it is about 35.000 apartment’s illegal rented out, as reported by the Instituto Nacional de Estadística (INE).
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Hotel and trade unions are talking about the unfair competition in the area and “pirate market” on the Costa del Sol it is so extensive during the summer months of July and August. Therefore, has the Treasury Department started a campaign to find hidden revenue. Since March have they controlled the apartments energy on Costa del Sol and so the authorities can see if the apartment is empty or are rented out.
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According to the tax authorities’ technical department, técnicos Del Ministerio de Hacienda (Gestha) is 75.4 percent of 65.000 rental apartments in the province of Malaga on the illegal rental market. That is, revenue is not reported to authorities that the loss of an estimated 104.8 million Euros in tax revenues.
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Most operations or rental goes through the Internet. It has become an opportunity for authorities to discover the “pirate market” of rental illegal apartments in summer.
It happens that people who rented an apartment has going to the authorities and complain that the apartment did not even have been at the beach as it has first been promised on the website on the Internet.After such notification, the authorities have found that the owners rented out the apartment illegal.
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Saturday, April 30th, 2011
Spain and Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Zapatero has rolled out the red carpet for Qatar’s emir, Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, who promised to invest three billion Euros in the Spanish savings bank sector. He was received with the greatest honors that included a banquet at the royal palace with not only the Spanish royal family and government, but also the personalities of the directors of the two football teams Real Madrid and Barcelona as well as acting couple Antonio Banderas and Melanie Griffith.
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During the official meeting yesterday between the Qatari emir, and Spanish Prime Minister, did they signed four important treaties on the establishment of a Spanish-Qatar’s collaboration, these contracts is about the Spanish sporting elites and the Qatar National Olympic Committee and several bilateral issues on energy, infrastructure, transport and safety .
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And it strongly suggests that the Spanish government is completely obsessed with getting their hands on more oil money, it’s not just cooperation with Qatar, and it is also with Norway. Agreement with Qatar is in fact in line with Zapatero’s trip to Oslo last September, where he was during an discussion with Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg, who promised imminent investment by the Norwegian pension fund, which is among the worlds largest.
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Qatar, according to the IMF the world’s richest countries, particularly because of its huge gas and oil reserves. Qatar is in the same line as the Emirates, a country with a rapid development and major infrastructure projects. The country’s presidents and prime ministers is the Emir, and it is he who appoints the government. It has no form of political institution or political party. Zapatero has in recent months has focused on foreign investment in Spain, which have included trips to not only Qatar, but also Dubai, Singapore and China in particular.
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Sunday, April 24th, 2011
Spain has overtaken Germany as Europe’s leading producer of wind power. The Spanish Wind Energy Association AEE, produced in Spanish wind turbine 42.976 gigawatt hours last year, equivalent to 16.4 percent of Spain’s total energy needs. In Germany was the production 36.500 gigawatt, it representing 6.2 percent of the total energy demand in Germany, according to an article by AEEs site. Germany remains the largest in Europe when it comes to installing capacity of 27.214 MW corresponding to 20.676 MW in Spain. The fact that Spain still has the highest production of wind touched on the good wind conditions in the country last year.
Spain would invest more in solar energy as a supplement to the wind, when Spain has mostly sunny days and hours of sunshine in Europe. The discussions are to install solar panels in between the wind turbines when the installations and the electricity grid are already built for wind turbines.
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