DEVELOPMENTS IN CHARTER REGULATION – WHAT TO EXPECT IN 2025? LEGISLATIVE CHANGES?
It is clear! 2025 is likely to be the year in which the regulations governing the charter activity will be profoundly modified. On the one hand, on 15 August 2025 the articles referring to the dispatch of vessels will come into force and on the other hand, last February, the Balearic Government has submitted to […]
YACHT CHARTER AND IEDMT: HOW DOES THE NON – RESIDENT AND RELATED ENTITIES EXEMPTION APPLY?
It is quite frequent that we receive queries about the processing of the exemption from registration tax on charter boats. This obliges us to be as up to date as possible and to study the different ways in which this can be applied in different cases. Recently, two Resolutions have been published by the Tax […]
FLOOD AREAS IN URBAN AND DEVELOPABLE PLOTS
Recently, we published a first article on how the recent regulation of flood areas in rustic land would affect. Since we only talked about its impact on rustic land as it is the most affected classification, we will now discuss the impact of this rule on urban and developable land. To begin, the rule speaks […]
CONSTRUCTION OF PROPERTIES ON FLOOD-PRONE RUSTIC LAND:
In October 2024, the Valencian Community experienced an unprecedented catastrophe. Intense rainfall, coupled with the ineffectiveness of the authorities, caused severe floods that affected all types of constructions. As a result of these events, various governments became aware and adopted measures to prevent future disasters. The Balearic community was no exception, and on December 13th, […]
LEGALIZATION OF DWELLINGS ON RURAL LAND IS NOW POSSIBLE
Much has been expected since May last year when the future new government won the elections. Since then, there have been rivers of ink and many rumors among industry professionals about how and when the new regulations would be published. Well, today, May 28, 2024, we finally have the rule that regulates the procedure for […]
THE AMENDMENT TO THE LAW ON INHERITANCE TAXES AND PROPERTY TRANSFERS: DOES IT APPLY TO FOREIGNERS (NON-TAX RESIDENTS) OR ONLY TO TAX RESIDENTS IN SPAIN?
Last May 2023 there were municipal elections in the Balearic Islands and consequently a change of political party. One of the most important measures approved by the new Balearic legislature was Decree Law 4/2023 of 18 July 2023, which makes important modifications to the Inheritance Tax and the Transfer Tax, both taxes that have been […]
GOOD NEWS FOR THE NAUTICAL CHARTER IN THE BALEARIC ISLANDS – NEW ROYAL DECREE 186/2023 APPROVING THE RULES FOR THE REGULATION OF MARITIME NAVIGATION.
On 21 March 2023, Royal Decree 186/2023 was published in the BOE (Official State Gazette), approving the Regulation on the Organisation of Maritime Navigation. One of the most relevant aspects that we want to develop in this article is the introduction of a simplified regime of the “despacho” by means of a responsible declaration for […]
NEW DEVELOPMENTS WITH ENERGY EFFICIENCY CERTIFICATES (EEC)
Given the importance of the EWC for the rental or sale of housing, the CNMC has warned of the need to justify the need for these certificates to be issued only by engineers or architects. By way of summary and to give a general idea, the National Commission for Markets and Competition (CNMC) has analyzed […]
HOW CAN WE PROVE THAT AN ILLEGAL WORK IS TIME-BARRED?
Introduction Today I would like to deal with a topic, which is sometimes difficult to explain, related to the start of the prescription period for illegal constructions (those built without a licence). It is common to receive queries from clients who have certain doubts about proving whether a construction is time-barred or not. As we […]
New regulation for rural land in the Balearic Islands Decree Law 9/2020 of 25 May on urgent measures to protect the territory of the Balearic Islands.
The Balearic Government has published this new regulation which directly affects rustic land and land for urbanisation. In order to be as clear as possible, we could summarise this rule as follows
