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Breaking Motoring News from Spain.

At last the ridiculous law of having to produce proof of paying your car insurance in Spain if asked to do so by the police has been suspended (from Monday 13th October). Now this responsibility is with the actual insurer to prove you have a valid insurance.

SEO Seminars Marbella - Artemis Internet Marketing

Many businesses based in Marbella and the Costa del Sol often wonder how their competitors are ranking so much higher on the search engines such as Google than they are. For some very non competitive terms and businesses, as long as the website has the correct text and a few links, it may well rank naturally.

Unfortunatley, in most cases it takes a little more work than a 'hit and miss' attempt to rank for your business activities. The actual phrase for the work required in order to rank is Search Engine Optimisation or SEO for short.

Many businesses employ a specilaists company to do it for them and there are a few that specilaise in SEO Marbella (and the Costa del Sol) and SEO Spain.

See www.solar-internet.com or www.artemisinternetmarketing.com

However the two SEO companies above have teamed up to provide businesses in Spain with an insight and some advice on how they can get started with SEO. They now run FREE SEO seminars in Marbella from their Marbella offices and with four already under their belt (at time of posting) and another arranged for November, these SEO seminars in Marberlla have proved to be very popular and extremely informative for new and old businesses alike.

If you fancy learning a bit about SEO and some ideas on how to start moving your own website up the Google rankings, why not tale a look at their Marbella SEO seminars pages.

For the Artemis website see here and for the Solar Internet page see here.

Both websites have contact forms where you can enquire about the availability of the next SEO seminars in Marbella.

English Classes in Spain - English Lessons

Question:

Hi! I've just started giving private English classes and am not quite sure what percent oft he IRPF I should be charging.

I originally though it was at 15% just likeyour website indicates however someone just mentioned to me that it went upto 18%.

This same person also mentioned that I don't have to charge forIVA since my service is for "eduactional purposes" and these services areexempt from IVA.

Could you please help me understand which is it exactly?

And if you could tell me which government website I can look up to findthis information, I'd really appreciate it. Thanks!

Answer:

I have no knowledge of the IRPF being increased to 18% and am still paying 15% myself.

Either way each quarter you have to make up the minimum tax of 20%.

This is quite a useful site http://www.justlanded.com/english/Spain/Tools/Just-Landed-Guide/Business/Taxation

Train Malaga to Alicante

Question received via email to Get Spain

Could you please help - we need to get from Malaga to Alicante by train, can you advise what trains and where we would need to get them from and how long this would approximately take. An idea of the times of the trains would also be helpful and are then any special tickets we can buy.

Answer:

Unfortunately there is no direct route between Malaga and Alicante.

The route is Malaga to Madrid Atocha (2.5 hrs approx) and then from Madrid Chamartin to Alicante (3.75 hrs approx)

Tickets are about £99 each one way

If you are not planning to travel within 7 days of the date you book, you can use the following link to take advantage of these rates.

http://www.getspain-spain.com/renfe-trains-spain.html just enter Malaga and then Alicante