SPI branch in Spain

Jose Carlos Garcia Sogo jsogo at debian.org
Sat Jan 11 13:57:11 UTC 2003


El día 10 ene 2003, Peter Vandenabeele escribía:
> On Fri, Jan 10, 2003 at 12:59:45AM +0100, Aurelien Jarno wrote:
> > On Thu, Jan 09, 2003 at 11:18:18PM +0100, Jose Carlos Garcia Sogo wrote:
> > >   The other problem is that bank fees for money transfers are quite
> > >   high. Although they have reduced since Euro introduction, they're
> > >   high and a big load for little donations. EU Comission is right now
> > >   pressing banks to reduce them, so they will tend to be lower. Anyway,
> > >   this leaves out any country out of the Euro zone.
> > 
> > I have heard (anybody to confirm) that bank fees will be reduced
> > starting on 1st July 2003 for the Euro zone. By this date a money transfer 
> > between for example Spain and Germany should cost the same as a money transfer 
> > from Spain to Spain.
> 
> I can confirm that both for private and for commercial accounts
> the fees for Electronic Money Transfer will be the same naitional 
> or within the EU (I checked explictely with Fortis on that one).
> 
> Condition is that the person that sends the money uses the 
> universal IBAN number for the account of the addressee of the
> money. Of course, they compensate that with higher fees for all 
> money transfers.

  But this doesn't solve tax issues.

-- 
  Jose Carlos Garcia Sogo
     jsogo at debian.org
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