tax issues husband living/working out of spain
Apr 18th 2009, 12:02 pm
#16
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Re: tax issues husband living/working out of spain
wierdfish,
I am in a similar situation to your husband in that I work abroad and spend a limited amount of time at my villa in Javea. When working in Dubai I had a resident visa, similarly now I am in Kazakhstan I have a residents visa/work permit here.
I am sure similar visas are entered in his passport in Bahrain.
This will be enough evidence (together with his flight boarding stubs and passport stamps- I always keep mine for tax purposes) to dismiss any attempt to make him a Spanish resident for tax purposes :- ie you can 'prove otherwise'.
BTW I am a UK citizen declared not resident in the UK for tax purposes (what's tax!).
I am in a similar situation to your husband in that I work abroad and spend a limited amount of time at my villa in Javea. When working in Dubai I had a resident visa, similarly now I am in Kazakhstan I have a residents visa/work permit here.
I am sure similar visas are entered in his passport in Bahrain.
This will be enough evidence (together with his flight boarding stubs and passport stamps- I always keep mine for tax purposes) to dismiss any attempt to make him a Spanish resident for tax purposes :- ie you can 'prove otherwise'.
BTW I am a UK citizen declared not resident in the UK for tax purposes (what's tax!).
Last edited by Mykap; Apr 18th 2009 at 12:09 pm.
Apr 18th 2009, 6:02 pm
#17
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Location: Granada Costa
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Re: tax issues husband living/working out of spain
Being resident elsewhere is not necessarily the issue. The key is being tax resident AND PAYING taxes elsewhere.
The UK taxman has a similar attitude - unless you can prove you are tax resident somewhere else he will often not allow UK income to be paid tax free.
My reading of the Spanish rule is that you want to avoid Spanish income tax (as the spouse of a resident) you may need to prove tax residency elsewhere rather than just being non resident in Spain.
The only way you will find out the score is to ask the Spanish tax office whether the consider you tax resident as a result of having a spouse who is tax resident in Spain.
As I said before, this is a question better not asked!
The UK taxman has a similar attitude - unless you can prove you are tax resident somewhere else he will often not allow UK income to be paid tax free.
My reading of the Spanish rule is that you want to avoid Spanish income tax (as the spouse of a resident) you may need to prove tax residency elsewhere rather than just being non resident in Spain.
The only way you will find out the score is to ask the Spanish tax office whether the consider you tax resident as a result of having a spouse who is tax resident in Spain.
As I said before, this is a question better not asked!
