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Spain prepares Register of Gibraltar residents who have Spanish homes 'to avoid fiscal fraud'
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The Spanish tax authorities are to intensify their campaign about Gibraltar residents who have homes in the Spanish neighbourhood, by producing a register of those who have such homes but as non-residents in Spain.
This has been made known by Pilar Fernandez, who is the special representative of the Spanish tax authorities in Andalucia, Ceuta and Melilla.
Their aim is to concentrate principally in the Campo area where many Gibraltar residents have homes. The aim is to avoid fiscal fraud, she said.
Once the register has been established, it will be decided who are those who have acquired their homes as non-residents, where the money came from to buy the property as well as the use being made of it.
She pointed out that in many cases these non-residents live in 'the British colony', 'in those fiscal paradises', about more of the time allowed to be a resident in Spain, but always as a non-resident.
At the same time, the aim is to establish if money transfers take place and if companies, such as nominee companies, have been used to acquire the property.
Spanish coastal areas have seen much development in recent years. She speaks of risk areas.
She had noted that in the Campo de Gibraltar area - which she kept calling 'Gibraltar' - there had been a proliferation of such companies, without forgetting Malaga, said Spanish reports.
It is well known that there are several housing developments in the Campo area near the Rock which have attracted Gibraltar purchasers.
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