"Sorry, Charlie"
Spain is the country of fobbing off responsibilities. It's the country of venga Usted mañana . It doesn't matter if someone loses pay or ends up paying a penalty because papers are transferred around or the person in need of them is told to visit five different other offices that have nothing to do with them. As long as responsibility is passed off to someone else it's of no importance. And all the papers that must be collected are impressive. In many cases, the information can easily be gleaned from the company's, or the department's, or the government's databases. Yet the claimant must still collect and present the papers. I have been dealing with two headaches this week, my husband's knee, and the declaration of inheritance taxes owed from my father's death. In the second part, I know I owe no taxes because my inheritance is far from the lower limit of being eligible to pay taxes. In our region, most inheritances are free of taxes. Even so, there ...