Another UAE tax question...
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Another UAE tax question...
I am about to start working in the UAE on a 3 year contract, so my earnings there should be tax free (I will ensure I dont spend too long in the UK etc)
My wife is planning to keep working in the UK for the next couple of months and then take maternity leave. The plan is that she will come to the UAE to have the baby and then will stay living here with me on a sponsor residence visa.
She will be resident in the UAE from when she arrives. But her maternity leave will be paid by a UK company to her UK account. Does that mean she will still be liable to UK tax on that even when she is resident in the UAE?
Hoping someone can opine on this. I'm doing the finances and it makes a difference...
My wife is planning to keep working in the UK for the next couple of months and then take maternity leave. The plan is that she will come to the UAE to have the baby and then will stay living here with me on a sponsor residence visa.
She will be resident in the UAE from when she arrives. But her maternity leave will be paid by a UK company to her UK account. Does that mean she will still be liable to UK tax on that even when she is resident in the UAE?
Hoping someone can opine on this. I'm doing the finances and it makes a difference...
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Re: Another UAE tax question...
I am about to start working in the UAE on a 3 year contract, so my earnings there should be tax free (I will ensure I dont spend too long in the UK etc)
My wife is planning to keep working in the UK for the next couple of months and then take maternity leave. The plan is that she will come to the UAE to have the baby and then will stay living here with me on a sponsor residence visa.
She will be resident in the UAE from when she arrives. But her maternity leave will be paid by a UK company to her UK account. Does that mean she will still be liable to UK tax on that even when she is resident in the UAE?
Hoping someone can opine on this. I'm doing the finances and it makes a difference...
My wife is planning to keep working in the UK for the next couple of months and then take maternity leave. The plan is that she will come to the UAE to have the baby and then will stay living here with me on a sponsor residence visa.
She will be resident in the UAE from when she arrives. But her maternity leave will be paid by a UK company to her UK account. Does that mean she will still be liable to UK tax on that even when she is resident in the UAE?
Hoping someone can opine on this. I'm doing the finances and it makes a difference...
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So she's going to shaft a company for maternity leave and then resign before she needs to return to work....?
No wonder companies would rather employ men to reduce their exposure.
No wonder companies would rather employ men to reduce their exposure.
#4
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Her free-income is "earned" in the UK. It should therefore be taxed in the UK.
You cannot have your carrot-cake and eat it.
You cannot have your carrot-cake and eat it.
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You have made a sizeable leap of logic to arrive at your final conclusion though, unless you are working in a company where each individual male is 100% efficiently productive all of the time
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who cares if he's Mrs will be shafting her company.....in this day and age...it's a dog eat dog world...her company probably wouldn't bat an eyelid if they had to get rid of her and so I say take what you can.
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Even remember handing the laptop to the Abu Dhabi office and telling them too figure out how to get it back to the UK office.
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Why stop there?
Why not just shaft everyone you meet?
That Hummer back there is probably going to skip forward and cut in at the junction, you may as well do it first, **** it! It's dog eat dog!
Why not just shaft everyone you meet?
That Hummer back there is probably going to skip forward and cut in at the junction, you may as well do it first, **** it! It's dog eat dog!
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Re: Another UAE tax question...
I am about to start working in the UAE on a 3 year contract, so my earnings there should be tax free (I will ensure I dont spend too long in the UK etc)
My wife is planning to keep working in the UK for the next couple of months and then take maternity leave. The plan is that she will come to the UAE to have the baby and then will stay living here with me on a sponsor residence visa.
She will be resident in the UAE from when she arrives. But her maternity leave will be paid by a UK company to her UK account. Does that mean she will still be liable to UK tax on that even when she is resident in the UAE?
Hoping someone can opine on this. I'm doing the finances and it makes a difference...
My wife is planning to keep working in the UK for the next couple of months and then take maternity leave. The plan is that she will come to the UAE to have the baby and then will stay living here with me on a sponsor residence visa.
She will be resident in the UAE from when she arrives. But her maternity leave will be paid by a UK company to her UK account. Does that mean she will still be liable to UK tax on that even when she is resident in the UAE?
Hoping someone can opine on this. I'm doing the finances and it makes a difference...
Next, many (not all) women we know over here who fall pregnant chose to return to their home countries to have the baby... for all sorts of very good reasons. Your circumstances might be different, but you might consider whether she'd be better off having it back home, hopefully with her mother on close call to help, and then bring her over.
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Health insurance out here is funny. I know plenty of people with full health insurance who still had to pay quite a bit out of pocket for sundry expenses. As much as 20K+
Might be easier for her to go home to have childbirth as has been suggested, then bring her back out here.
Might be easier for her to go home to have childbirth as has been suggested, then bring her back out here.
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I'd be astounded if pregnancy wasn't considered a 'pre-existing condition'.
Fortunately my medical covers that stuff, loads don't.
Fortunately my medical covers that stuff, loads don't.
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... Next, many (not all) women we know over here who fall pregnant chose to return to their home countries to have the baby... for all sorts of very good reasons. Your circumstances might be different, but you might consider whether she'd be better off having it back home, hopefully with her mother on close call to help, and then bring her over.
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I can't see it personally. The UK just doesn't think like that.