Spanish bureaucracy leads to many expats receiving substantial fines, getting into lengthy & expensive legal disputes or even returning home. 60% go home in their first year & largely due to bureaucracy – it’s frightening if you don’t speak the language – a further 23% go within 5 years. Red Tape Consultants solve your problems before they end up in the hands of lawyers & courts – so you don’t have to leave the sun.

• NIE - social security, health care, pension contributions & permission to work
• Residencia – registration, permanent residence & renewal
• Autonomo - self employed services & documentation
• Business start up – Limited (SL) or public company (SA) registration
• Business licenses – bar, catering, (including certificado de manipulador de alimentos - food handling certificate), catering, music, care, transport, agricultural, equestrian, etc.
• Business marketing – websites, posters, print and radio
• Property – purchase & rental contracts, legalization of unregistered or part-registered property, building licenses, mortgages, etc.
• Education – Spanish or private International schools advice & introductions
• Health – free health care registration, medical documentation translation, accompanied hospital appointments or emergencies
• Vehicles - sale contracts, notary, trafico registration, Junta fees, ITV tests, car collection, garage repairs and retest, etc.
• Pets – import & export documentation including equine
• Benefits – unemployment, sickness, pensions
• Financial – banks, mortgage companies, loans, cards, equity release
• Bills – community, telephone & electric, post collection and administration
• Planning – inheritance in Spain, living together but not married, children
• Mediation – if you are in a dispute & want to register a complaint & have it dealt with by the authorities let us mediate and reach an agreement for you
• Fines – if you have already received a fine, or are under threat of doing so, let us sort it out.

Red Tape Consultants are honest, independent and experienced in all of the above and are used to dealing with (& queueing at) the Spanish authorities at Town Hall (Ayuntamiento), Regional Government (Junta) and National Government (Gobierno) level, in addition to working with Policia Local and Nacional and the Guardia Civil. All work is conducted in a positive, civil and non-confrontational manner thus achieving excellent results and saving you money. All work is quoted in advance & every job is seen through to a resolution.

Let Red Tape tie up a solution today

Contact: Jose Ensenat on 661 341 568 or at jose@redtape.es