31 Mar 2012 11:14 AM:
Hi Garyizme,
We were wrongly advised to become residents, which caused us problems. We had a call from bank also saying Police had frozen our banks and had to phone Madrid to sort (And yes...It was Police and not tax office).
Don't know where you live, but we went to the Orihela Costa Town Hall near La Zenia and queued to see a Policeman in the office where they renew residencia's etc, who needed to have copies of Passport, Residencia, NIE and a letter to state why we did not want to be residents anymore. We found a nice lady in one of the townhall offices who wrote the letter for us in Spanish, saying we wanted to spend more time with children in Uk, as we did not want to write, that we are only holiday makers and had made a mistake. We also had a form that we got from solicitor which is only very straight forward and only one page. The Police Man took all this stamped it and said fine.
We now pay non residents tax of €50 a year. Hope this helps.
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Cancel my Residencia
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