30 Nov 2024 1:43 PM:

Firstly, you are bound by the 90 day rule as well, as are all EU citizens, unless you register your stay with the foreigners' office where you will be required to show you have sufficient funds and complete health care as your EHIC/GHIC is only valid for 90 days. If you stay over 183 days in one calendar year you could be classed as a fiscal resident and pay income tax in Spain. What doesn't count is the 90 in 180 rule so you could stay for 90 days, leave for a week or less and then return again without waiting the 90 days like non EU citizens do. Your wife can accompany you under exactly the same rules as you so, if you register and stay up to 6 months at one go, she can as well. The 90 in 180 will not apply to her during these periods but will kick in if she travels anywhere in the Schengen area without you. 

Always providing she is accompanying you or visiting to be with you. 

Thread: Query on the 90 day rule

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29 Nov 2024 9:09 PM:

Are you sure? The 210 is dependent on where your tax residency is, not what passport you hold. If you are a UK resident and rent your property then the income you receive is 24% and not 19% which a EU tax resident would pay. 

If you don't rent you'd need to contact the Agencia Tributaria to see if it is the country of tax residency that counts or your passport. As you pay rental tax at 24% for the periods the property is rented, because you pay tax to the UK HMRC, I can't see how they would only charge 19%, which EU tax residents pay, for the period it is not rented.

However, any changes such as name changes, name changes on marriage, change of nationality, address etc should be notified by using the change of circumstance form which is here Change of circumstance

This is done at the foreign office in the province your property is in and should be done within one month of the change and all supporting documents showing the change are to accompany it at your appointment.

Edited to add: This is Spain and nothing is as easy as you might think it would be and is it worth it all to save about 40 euro a year? (or, at most, a euro a week)

 

 

This message was last edited by mariedav on 11/29/2024.
Thread: Passport Change

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06 Nov 2024 6:54 PM:

I think they might have moved after 8 years, after all, UK was still in the EU then.

Thread: Young family wanting to know best place for expats in Alicante region

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22 Oct 2024 7:12 PM:

Many places, not just Spain, do not accept Amex due to the high cost of transactions. Visa and Mastercard are accepted throughout Europe but  Amex generall in the big places that can afford the fees. 

Thread: SAVING TO BUY PROPERTY?

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01 Apr 2024 11:12 AM:

1. The builder or promoter

2. There was no leeway on price when we bought but that was in 2007

3. Use an independent solicitor. Many stories of property being builty on illegal land, debts and utilities not paid etc. An independent solicitor woul be necessary to check all these things out. 

4. Ours was 1% of the cost.

 

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