Gibraltar’s representation at the Labour Party Conference continued yesterday evening with the Gibraltar Reception hosted by the Chief Minister Fabian Picardo and featuring a keynote speech by the UK Minister for Europe and the Overseas Territories Stephen Doughty MP.
According to an article published this morning on abc.es, the Spanish government plans to target Gibraltarian residents that have homes in Spain. According to the article, the government is targeting all those people who are registered in Gibraltar for fiscal reasons, but who have live in a property in Spain and don't pay local taxes.
According to the ABC's sources in the "Ministerio de Hacienda", the plan is directed at finding people that fiscally and legally own assets in Spain and to combat tobacco smuggling.
Today, the Government and the Gibraltar Philatelic Bureau issued a new set of 14 stamps to commemorate both the 60th anniversary of Her Majesty’s Queen Elizabeth II’s coronation and the 60th anniversary of the first ever Queen Elizabeth II definitive stamps released in 1953.