Hello There all;
Ok It might that I came across the right forum who could finally hand me information on this matter; ok I am european have european id and passport since my Mother is european ok?
also, I have a pension that was given to me by the spanish gov social security, it´s a permanent incapacity total..that´s what´s called here in Spain, the pension itself in Spain it´s exempt from taxes by it´s nature, some other pensions are not but this one it is; ok on my planning to check things before moving up to the UK, I called from Spain 10,000 places internal revenue etc.. to check if I had to pay taxes once I am up there..
see..my case is different since being european I can go and move without any problems to the uk, they stated me that yes..i would have to pay taxes since in UK the pensions wich are incapacity permanent are taxable,:(
but there is also a double taxation agreement between Spain-UK that exempts this pension from taxes..I talked to an inspector and he told me that he would need to the pension statement to determine wich exactly is the pension...they have it on a london traduction department and he will get back to me....
according to their internal revenue policy the pension would only be non taxable if itw as given before 1995 wich is not my case since it was given after 1998, and I can´t consider it a dissabilty allowance since I am able to walk and get around so.. it seems like I would have to pay taxes on it,! but the question comes when how do they determine I have to pay it? I mean what If I live here for 5 months then go back to Spain then come back after 2 months or 1 month...you pay taxes only when you are a ordinary resident etc..? I mean for spanish citizens we don´t need any type of residents card in the UK, all other european countries after 6 months you are obligated to have a permanent residents card..but here you don´t...so what they based themselves to charge me taxes?
I checked how much they would charge me..see what I do is i have a banka ccount In Spain and once my pension goes through I myself just do a transfer via internet of my funds into a british bank account..so I guess that´s where they track an income is inn...
I barely get 1,000ks pounds a month,since the pound towards the euro is so strong..I get here in spain 1,466 euros but when you convert that into pounds it stays in barely 1000, from that they said they will take 105 pounds,
I don´t even know if they will give me anything back??
if you consider from that amount me paying rent, council tax, gas, water, electricity, gas for the car.. tv license.. once and while a pair of shoes.. medical prescriptions...here in Spain the prescriptions for being pensionist are free..seems like NHS also charges the prescriptions in my case!!!!
a friend told me once I get up there I should go to social services and explain them about all this sh*t.. 1000 is barely money to survive and i should get a discount on tax of a 25% but also a larger one in my case...also on NHS I should get some advice on this..
and finally what on earth they consider by being resident or not? I mean i could just shut my mouth and don´t say anything and just enter and leave the country?? but I want to act legal on this case but no one seems to even know anything about this..
I was also wondering if there is any tax organization consultant that could help me based in London Luton where I´ll mostly be living??
I´m kind a´desperated..seems like living in Spain it´s much more cheaper for me than going to the UK.....
