Economy

Jesús Ibáñez, owner of a lottery administration: “The self-employed are confused with large companies like Mercadona, but the reality is that the small businessman only has one or two employees and faces similar obligations”

Jesús Ibáñez, owner of a lottery administration: “The self-employed are confused with large companies like Mercadona, but the reality is that the small businessman only has one or two employees and faces similar obligations”

The tax pressure endured by the self-employed and small business owners in Spain has become a recurring debate in recent years. Sectors such as lottery administrationsmade up mostly of family businesses or small companies, denounce that tax obligations, which include VAT, personal income tax, withholdings and, in the case of ...

Completing a sticker album costs 600 euros on average: “I don't want to break a child's illusion either, but the dopamine is in opening the sticker, not in gluing it or collecting it.”

Completing a sticker album costs 600 euros on average: “I don’t want to break a child’s illusion either, but the dopamine is in opening the sticker, not in gluing it or collecting it.”

Saving is increasingly difficult in Spain. On the one hand, experts recognize that salaries must recover purchasing power, but they also express lack of financial knowledge of most people. And, certainly, as journalist Eli Romero explains in her podcast ‘Has Sense’, “sometimes money doesn’t go into big purchases, but into ...

Social Security denies permanent disability to a fishmonger with cancer, considering that “she can continue working,” and the court orders that she be recognized in full.

Social Security denies permanent disability to a fishmonger with cancer, considering that “she can continue working,” and the court orders that she be recognized in full.

A woman with breast cancer who worked as a fishmonger has managed to have the Superior Court of Justice of Andalusia recognize her pension for permanent total disability, after the National Social Security Institute (INSS) denied it. As the sentence explains, the consequences of the carcinoma, which caused the loss ...