Local production fixer Spain — five dialects, one contract, English-first

Yes. A Spanish NIF (for a company) or NIE (for an individual) is required to sign almost every permit application, local invoice and property release in Spain — Ajuntament, Parque Natural, Costas, and the Balearic rebate filing all demand it. Most overseas production houses don’t have one. Lovely CPS signs under our Spanish entity, issues Spanish NIF invoices to your production company, and files permits in our name with you as the end client.

Non-resident crew and talent paid for work on Spanish soil fall under IRNR (Impuesto sobre la Renta de no Residentes) — typically 19% for EU residents and 24% for non-EU residents, withheld at source, with double-tax treaty relief possible if the country of residence has a treaty in place. We handle the calculation, withhold correctly, issue Form 216 and a year-end 296 summary, and give your accountant clean documentation. Expect the conversation at PPM, not at wrap.

Our fixer scope covers the producer on the ground, English-language comms, permit liaison and filing, owner relations, call-sheet coordination, and a supervising producer at PPM and on-set. Crew, kit, vehicles, catering, talent, accommodation, permit fees, Costas fees, AESA fees and the Parque Natural concession are passed through at cost on your Spanish invoice with receipts. No kickbacks, no mark-up on third-party fees.

21 business days is comfortable, 14 is tight, anything under 7 is triage. Parc Natural de Ses Salines wants 15–30 BD. AESA drone filings need 20 BD for the Ibiza CTR. Closing Ma-2141 on Sa Calobra is a 6–8 week build. We’ve delivered in 5 days when location choice is flexible — but for protected-area or road-closure shoots, engage by T-21.

The producer assigned to your shoot carries a Spanish SIM, an English WhatsApp thread and direct lines to the Ajuntament duty officer, the park ranger, the Guardia Civil desk and the finca owner. On-set issues — neighbour complaint, power cut, road protest, weather pivot — route through us, not your Paris producer at midnight. We budget a contingency call-out day into every multi-day shoot. It’s rarely used, and that’s the point.

Twelve years, 400+ property relationships, and a stubborn habit of knocking on doors with coffee instead of emailing through a portal. Half the best Balearic locations aren’t on any scouting library — they’re word-of-mouth, owner by owner. We pitch your brand and brief in person in Spanish or Catalan, negotiate the fee and the shoot-day rules, and lock a signed location release on paper — not a WhatsApp screenshot. On resort shoots we’ve run, 3 of 4 locations have been off any online library.

Yours. We’re a fixer — the brief, the PPM deck, the call-sheet structure, the DP, the stylist and the agency producer stay with you. Our job is to translate your plan into Spanish reality: permits, owner releases, crew, vans, kit, catering, NIF invoicing. We’re on the PPM call, we sign the permits, we walk the locations, we pick up the van. You keep the creative and the client.

Probably yes, and yes — we co-file with a Palma-based tax advisor. The Balearic Islands deduction reaches up to 30% of qualifying Spanish spend for film, TV and advertising productions, stacked on Ley 27/2014. Minimum-spend thresholds apply — we’ll confirm against your scope at PPM. We prep the application with the Illes Balears Film Commission, structure the invoice through a Spanish co-producer or AIE where required, and co-file the return with a Palma-based tax advisor inside the statutory window. Paperwork typically closes out 30 to 60 days post-wrap.