I'm a venezuelan refugee in Spain since 2019. My focus was entirely on escaping and staying in a safe country. When I got here, I got the help of an accountant/manager to start working legally.
He committed fraud in my name without telling me and refused to take responsibility. I was penalized to pay €8600 for his mistake.
I'll add the whole explanation after the read more because you need context to understand what he did.
And now if I can't pay this thing, my residence will be taken away. I will be deported.
I've tried so hard to raise this money. More work, more marketing, preorders, asking for a loan, but nothing has worked.
I have until next month to pay it so I can renew my residence.
All I wanted was to do things right. I thought seeking a professional to handle the legal aspects of my business was the right thing to do. I thought I could finally breathe after being treated like a criminal for years in Venezuela, when all I want is to make my silly little figurines in peace.
I need to take care of my babies (cats) and my parents who are still stuck in Venezuela. I only make enough to live + take care of them, and it's become clear that I can't raise this money by work alone.
So please, any help is appreciated. Reblogs, orders, commissions. I'm so incredibly embarrassed to make this post, but I'm desperate. I don't want to be deported. I don't want to be an illegal alien. I don't want to live in constant fear again.
Here's my Ko-fi link, thank you for reading
https://ko-fi.com/marlikesunicorns/goal?g=0
and this is my shop
There's some context needed to understand what happened, so here it goes.
In Spain, you need to pay a monthly fee of €300 in order to run a business. This goes to the Social Security.
The fee is mandatory, but the government realized it was unfair to charge it from the beginning to a business that's only starting. So they established a reduction of €240 for new entrepreneurs, for 1 year. After that, they'd slowly raise it.
They also gave benefits to people living in certain areas, especially small towns. The fee reduction extended for 6 extra months with this, but only applied as long as you continued to live there for 4 years.
I lived in a small town for 1 year. Then I moved to the closest small city.
But this accountant guy asked for this 6 month extension in my name without my consent.
So then the government demanded I pay the whole €240 for each month ever since I started my business. I went through all the legal processes to ask them to review this thing but it was impossible. They ignored everything. It didn't matter that I only received the benefit for the 1 year that I would've been given anyway for being a new entrepreneur. It didn't matter that I would never be able to afford to pay this in the 15 days they gave me.
If that wasn't enough, I got sick with covid twice, and missed 4 months of work in total, months I got 0 income because they also won't ensure me until I pay the thing. So those fees were also added to the debt + late fees that continue to grow.
Summary: Basically he promised the government I'd live in a small town for 4 years, and when I moved before then (because I had no idea he had done this) they demanded I pay back ALL the benefits they had granted me in the past year.
for my eighth year of art fight (good lord), i'm on team seafoam!
come kick my ass in july!!
Jade winglet with matching accessories?
Jade winglet with matching accessories.
I loved this trend so much I just had to participate fr 😭😭 (hope ya’ll like this it took a lot of effort)
These two hoes and their stanky ass cloaks🙏🙏
the pinkie pie pony club… inspired by W3R3W0LF3 on twt!!🙏🩷
HITO!!! [she/he] the purple sketches were some of the first I did of him. Every drawing since I'm slowly figuring her out :3
Art Fight attack on Sixbane of their character Sonal
hi! I'm so sorry about sending a random ask, I'm reaching out to fellow artists/people interested in art to see if anyone in the community can help :')
I'm a refugee about to get deported and kind strangers are my last hope to stay safe. the info is on my pinned post.
since I don't have that many followers I'm contacting people who seem nice. if you can't help, please don't worry!
if you've already reblogged/donated, thank you from the bottom of my heart!! thank you for reading and sorry to bother you!
have a wonderful day 🩷
I don’t consider myself to have a wide audience, but I hope this helps!! <3
a lil practice animation of saph i did
yeah my animation skills are not great but i can assure you that this is MUCH better than some of my first animations
also, idk why the background suddenly disappears at the end, sorry abt that