This guide covers… This guide deals with the special things that you will need to take into account when choosing commercial property. By commercial property, we mean things such as offices, shops, bars, restaurants and warehouses. It is best read in conjunction with our country specific guides to Choosing Commercial Property but we have produced this global version to deal …
Continue readingPowers of Attorney – a Global Guide
Powers of Attorney are much used in international transactions where somebody who would normally have to attend to sign a document finds it inconvenient or impossible to do so.
Continue readingTax: the Taxation of Companies in Spain
In Spain, companies are taxes in a variety of ways. Understanding the system – and how it will work best for you – is essential if you want to do business in Spain via a company. This is an area where detailed professional advice is a must but it is still helpful to have a basic understanding of the system before you see your accountant.
Continue readingComing to Spain to Set Up a Business (Immigration/Visas)
If you want to set up a business in Spain there are plenty of opportunities to do so, especially if you are going to create employment in Spain. However, the processes can be quite complex. This guide will hep you make the right choices.
Continue readingBuying Commercial Property in Spain
There are two group of people who buy commercial property. Those who need it for their own use and those who like it as an investment vehicle. Both groups need to make sure they buy the right property.
Continue readingDebt Collection in Spain
For any business or individual, debt collecting is sometimes a tedious necessity. In Spain, it can be very slow and, all too often, unproductive. You can maximise your chances of success by taking some basic and inexpensive precautions and planning ahead. This guide covers what to do and how to do it.
Continue readingSetting Up a Company in Spain
Do you need a company in Spain? If so, which type? What are your options and what are their respective advantages and disadvantages? This guide sets out, briefly and simply, some of the issues concerned.
Continue readingStarting a Business in Spain
Starting a business in a new country is exciting and it can be very profitable. It will certainly change your life! However, if you get it wrong it can prove to be a financial disaster and could change your life in all the wrong ways. Getting it right needs a bit of luck but, much more, hard work and thorough preparation. This guide will help you make the most out of this opportunity.
Continue readingOpening a Bar in Another Country
The reality often turns out very differently. Hard work. Crippling losses. No spare time. Descent into alcoholism. Sorry to sound a little grim, but the risks are real. A huge number of bars fail within their first couple of years. Yet running a bar can be, for the right person with the right drive, a profitable and fulfilling business. One …
Continue readingBuying an Existing Business in Another Country
Many people consider taking over an existing business rather than starting their own, brand new one. There are several advantages to doing this but there can also be significant risk.
Continue readingStarting a Company in in a Foreign Country
More and more people are doing business internationally – either operating solely within their home country or with additional premises and staff in foreign countries.
Continue readingEmployment Law in Spain
Some people work for the same employer, without incident or trouble, for years or decades. Others are not so lucky and encounter difficulties from unsafe working practices to racial or sexual harassment.
This guide gives you initial guidance as to what to do if things go wrong.
Continue readingFunding Your International Business
Funding international businesses – especially small international businesses – can be tricky. Some would say nearly impossible. Funding them without falling into the hands of the crooks and charlatans who populate the internet is harder still.
Continue readingStarting a Business in a Foreign Country
This guide is intended for the person who wants to start up a business based in a foreign country. This might be their only business or a branch of a business “back home”.
Continue readingDoing Business Around the World
It is not long ago that most business operated locally or nationally. What they made – or their services – were consumed within a few miles or, at most, within their own countries.
Continue readingBusiness Issues in Spain
Every country has special issues when it comes to doing business. Spain is no exception. This guide focused on some of the issues that can catch out the unwary.
Continue readingDoing Business in Spain
Doing business in Spain is an enticing prospect. It is a large market (46 million people) and a trillion dollar economy. It has a very large expat population and over 75 million tourists per year, which opens a number of unique opportunities. So how do you do business in Spain?
Continue readingEase of Doing Business – Global List
The World bank has been monitoring how easy it is to do business in countries around the world since 2001 and their evaluations should be high on your reading list.
Continue readingSelling a Business in Turkey
Once you have built a successful business it will (hopefully) build up in value and can later be sold.
Continue readingTaking Over (Buying) a Business in Turkey
Many people consider taking over an existing business rather than starting their own, new one. There are advantages to doing this but there can also be significant risk.
Continue readingStarting a Business in Turkey
Turkey is very welcoming when it comes to people wanting to set up new businesses. They realise that new business boosts the economy and creates local employment – and they also recognise that, for historical reasons, Turkey lacks some of the skills required by innovative businesses in the 21st Century.
Continue readingDoing Business in Turkey – From Outside the Country
Turkey permits foreigners and foreign businesses of any nationality to do business in Turkey. This is true whether they are selling goods or providing services.
Continue readingBusiness Culture in Turkey
Whatever your reason for doing business in Turkey, you will probably find that there are some big differences in business environment and culture.
Continue readingSetting up a Company in Turkey
Turkey is one of the least complicated places – and one of the quickest – to set up a company.
Continue readingOpening a Bar in Spain (Andalucia/Costa del Sol) – Video Guide
Lots of bars opened by expats fail – but some succeed, and succeed impressively. What makes the difference between a flop and a profitable business?
Continue readingOpening a Restaurant in Spain (Andalucia/Costa del Sol) – Video Guide
Many people want to open a restaurant in Spain, and that means there’s a lot of competition for expats who want to take this route.
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