Moving back to Blighty
Posted: Wed Nov 24, 2021 12:32 pmHi All
I don’t know if this particular question has been asked before, I can’t find it if it has so here goes.
It looks like our Spanish stay is over, I cannot maintain Spanish residency due to my job (it takes me out of the country for more than 6 months of the year) and I am under the 5 year limit (by a lot) to enable me to maintain it, so we are off…
Silly I know, spent a fortune and a lot of time and effort getting the residency, then this, but, them’s the rules.
My question is, do I have to be ‘Out’ by the end of this tax year to avoid having to file in Spain next year, or can I stay over a little bit into next year and as long as I am out for the remainder of the year that is OK? The way I read the rules, it says that I lose my residency if I am out of the country for more than 185 days, so that means I can be here for some of the year??
It would probably be like 20-30 days total in Jan/Feb as we have already bought a house back in the UK but we won’t complete until the end of Jan start of Feb….
Or, do I have to formally renounce to get out of the tax system?
We plan to keep our house in Spain and use it as a rental/holiday home
Any help appreciated..
I don’t know if this particular question has been asked before, I can’t find it if it has so here goes.
It looks like our Spanish stay is over, I cannot maintain Spanish residency due to my job (it takes me out of the country for more than 6 months of the year) and I am under the 5 year limit (by a lot) to enable me to maintain it, so we are off…
Silly I know, spent a fortune and a lot of time and effort getting the residency, then this, but, them’s the rules.
My question is, do I have to be ‘Out’ by the end of this tax year to avoid having to file in Spain next year, or can I stay over a little bit into next year and as long as I am out for the remainder of the year that is OK? The way I read the rules, it says that I lose my residency if I am out of the country for more than 185 days, so that means I can be here for some of the year??
It would probably be like 20-30 days total in Jan/Feb as we have already bought a house back in the UK but we won’t complete until the end of Jan start of Feb….
Or, do I have to formally renounce to get out of the tax system?
We plan to keep our house in Spain and use it as a rental/holiday home
Any help appreciated..