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Is a farewell party taxable wages?

If a company sends an executive off to retirement with a big reception, the costs are not taxable wages if the event is a party for the employer and the employer also pays for the whole thing. The Federal Finance Court (BFH) made this clear in an important decision on the tax treatment of company parties. What was it about? The bone of contention was a reception that a municipal financial institution hosted and paid for at its corporate headquarters in 2019 for the chairman of the board before his retirement. According to court information, around 300 guests from politics,…

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Tenants in Catalonia will be able to check if a landlord is a large tenant with their name and NIF in the registry | News from Catalonia

The Department of Territory and Housing of the Generalitat is finalizing the decree that details how the registry of large homeowners will be, announced a year ago but still pending activation. The latest draft includes measures to facilitate consultation for tenants: knowing if the landlord of their apartment or the one they want to rent has the status of a large tenant, which requires greater demands than if they are not. To facilitate the consultation, the name or NIF of the owner will be valid, in addition to demonstrating “legitimate interest” to carry it out. It would be worth, for…

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Murcia opens a film ‘hospital’ to the public to recover its cinematographic heritage | Spain

The Film Library of the Region of Murcia Francisco Rabal has begun this 2026, adding to its work of dissemination and conservation of cinematographic heritage, its restoration. Its new film treatment laboratory allows the entire recovery process of old celluloid rolls to be carried out with the particularity that the facilities are visitable and open to the public, with the aim of showing younger generations the material dimension of cinema that is being lost in the digital age.”I like to say that this laboratory is like a hospital in which we curate films. In most cases, each of those films…

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Spain leads the toughest position in the EU against Trump and Netanyahu’s war | Spain

Spain does not support in any way the regime of the Ayatollahs of Iran, and has joined all the condemnations within the European Union that have been made against them, but the Government of Pedro Sánchez is absolutely convinced that the unilateral action of Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu is unacceptable and is mobilizing all its political and diplomatic resources to condemn it and confront it. The Spanish Government has the strongest position condemning Trump and Netanyahu’s war, and that was very clear in the videoconference meeting of the EU foreign ministers held yesterday, which was not easy. According to…

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HR in AI change management: Transformation begins in the mind

– Advertisement -GenAI is changing roles, skills and leadership at an unprecedented pace. However, whether this transformation succeeds is not decided in the IT department, but in the minds of the employees. Kristina Gerwert, member of the board of adesso SE, explains why HR in AI change management must move from a companion to an active designer – and how adesso builds acceptance and new skills through dialogue at eye level. Executive Summary HR in AI change management: Transformation begins in the mind The challenge: Generative AI is changing work, role profiles and leadership at a rapid pace. Many companies…

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Feijóo supports intervention in Iran: “The world is better when a tyrant falls” | Spain

Alberto Núñez Feijóo spoke his first words this Saturday at four in the afternoon after the massive attack by the United States and Israel on Iran to overthrow the regime. “The Iranian regime,” he wrote on his X profile, where he has 250,000 followers, “massacres its own citizens, pursues the nuclear bomb, finances terror and destabilizes the region.”The Iranian regime massacres its own citizens, pursues the nuclear bomb, finances terror and destabilizes the region. No democrat can be condescending to this because freedom is defended throughout the world. The West must be united: containment, avoid a…— Alberto Núñez Feijóo (@NunezFeijoo)…

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Iran War: What Israel’s Attack Is Really About

With the help of military strikes, the Iranians could “take their fate into their own hands,” says Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu. But he doesn’t say how that’s going to work. Neither Israel nor the USA should believe that the regime will surrender immediately.

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The Ministry of Culture paralyzes the process of recognition of historical irrigation as Intangible Heritage | News from Andalusia

The historical irrigation systems were declared Intangible Heritage of Humanity by UNESCO in December 2023. Spain is not included in that declaration despite the importance of our historical irrigation systems, not only in the peninsular Levant, but throughout the territory, including the islands or wetter areas such as Galicia. Although the Water Court of Valencia and the Good Men of Huerta de Murcia have been UNESCO intangible heritage since 2009, Spain did not participate in that process and Spanish irrigation is not included in that declaration, which was curiously promoted by Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg and Italy,…

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