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45% of all wealth tax collection for the 2014-2019 period was paid by taxpayers residing in Catalonia. The finance and accounting professor at UPF Barcelona School of Management and tax expert, Carmen Jover, comments on these figures and analyzes the meaning of a tax that "disincentivizes the creation of wealth".

Ana Tejedor is the winner of the award for the best Master's Thesis on Planetary Wellbeing with the documentary No sé nada de gaviotas and a graduate of the Master's Degree in Scientific Communication at UPF Barcelona School of Management.

Although the virtual world or metaverse is sometimes perceived as mere leisure pages where you can play, chat or simply waste time, there are different applications that support its great potential as a business development tool. This is evidenced by Luz Parrondo, Director of the Finance, Accounting and Control Department at UPF-BSM.

We have always heard people say that they have to be trained, and for this purpose there are organizations such as schools or universities that are dedicated to offering training processes. It is necessary, however, to pay attention to the language: precisely why do we use the word formation?

Tourism data in Barcelona have not yet recovered the levels of 2019. However, 3 out of 4 establishments are already open and the fairs to come, such as the Mobile World Congress. will receive up to 75,000 congress attendees who will leave in the city between 100 and 200 million euros. The Director of the Chair Future Scenarios of Retail, Tourism and Services, Josep Francesc Valls, analyzes the situation and the latest data.

The European Commission (EC) has decided to include gas and nuclear energy as green energies within the taxonomy to point out to investors the activities that can be classified as sustainable or that contribute to reducing emissions.

The expansion of the Barcelona airport, under discussion at the UPF Barcelona School of Management.

Until the price regulation, Spain has been one of the European countries with the highest price of antigen tests.

The great protagonist at the beginning of the year is none other than inflation. It is not surprising, the interannual rate was 5% in the Euro Zone, 6.5% in Spain or 5.3% in Germany.

With a 30% self-employed quota, 21% VAT and 15% advanced withholding of personal income tax, the self-employed will work to pay taxes, since the tax burden at the end of the quarter will be 60%.

The China Global Strategy of UPF Barcelona School of Management (UPF-BSM) has celebrated the arrival of the Year of the Tiger with an event at the school.

The UPF Barcelona School of Management signs with the Metropolitan House Foundation an agreement for the creation of the Dignified and Sustainable Housing Chair

During the month of February, the UPF-BSM community embarks on the project to reduce electricity and water consumption, cut emissions and make energy poverty visible.

The cloud is made up of computers that store and process data of all kinds, dissipating heat in a single space. This huge amount of work can raise the temperature of the room considerably and, therefore, data centers need infrastructures to maintain the temperature and ensure the proper functioning of the machines. How can we reduce the technological carbon footprint? Ana Freire, Director of the Academic Area of Technology, points to Artificial Intelligence. 

The United Nations is committed to promoting housing that meets energy efficiency requirements to ensure habitability. Within the framework of the Chair in Dignified & Sustainable Housing, its director and its researcher, Ramon Bastida and Erola Palau, respectively, propose examples of good practices in the rehabilitation of urban housing.