Post wedding procedures

Incy Wincy

hey

just wondering is there any official paperwork to be completed in Ireland once someone is married abroad in relation to tax / marital status etc.....what I am basically asking is do I need to notify any govt. organisations of my change in marital status (particularly in relation to tax relief as my husband works part-time) or do I just carry on as before???


thanks

How Strange

Afaik your wedding licence has to be sent into the relevant gov dept (something like births, deaths and marriages) which can take up to 2 months to process. then you have to send away for your certificate to same dept. just google it and you'll find the dept.

Then you have to notify revenue that you're married as you may be entitled to a tax refund/rebate of some sort for the year of marriage from the date of marriage to end of tax year. We still have to do this so I must do it on Monday. I'm not sure if you can register for joint assessment in the year of marriage, I think you have to wait until next year but ring revenue and have a chat with them and they'll give you all the info. Revenue are suprisingly helpful and informative for a civil service dept.

If you inform them of your marriage (after you get the cert) and elect for whichever assessment is preferable (probably joint as your husband is part-time so you get the majority of tax credits) they will automatically adjust you both for 2011.

artyeva

How Strange wrote: »

Afaik your wedding licence has to be sent into the relevant gov dept (something like births, deaths and marriages) which can take up to 2 months to process. then you have to send away for your certificate to same dept. just google it and you'll find the dept.

the citizen information website would beg to differ with the advice above:

Marriages of Irish citizen(s) abroad are registered in the country where they occur. The General Register Office (central civil repository for records relating to births, deaths and marriages in the Republic of Ireland) has no function in advising on, or the registration of marriages of Irish citizen(s) that take place abroad.


Marriages that take place outside the state are not normally registered in Ireland, except in very specific circumstances laid down in Section 2 of the Marriages Act, 1972. This meant only marriages consisting solely of a religious ceremony, conducted in the département of Hautes Pyrénées, France before 1973 between couples where both or either partner was an Irish citizen on the day of the marriage had to be registered in Ireland. All other marriages that take place abroad do not need to be registered in Ireland.


Your foreign marriage certificate will usually be accepted for official purposes in Ireland where you need to show evidence that you are married. If the certificate is in a foreign language, you must provide an official translation or a translation from a recognised translation agency.

galah

no need to provide marriage cert, but you do need to tell revenue (and the department of social affairs, I think - although they may be notified by revenue.).

(must talk to revenue too about last year's assessment, actually, thanks for the reminder ;-))

Supercell

artyeva wrote: »

Your foreign marriage certificate will usually be accepted for official purposes in Ireland where you need to show evidence that you are married. If the certificate is in a foreign language, you must provide an official translation or a translation from a recognised translation agency.

What's an "official translation" ?
Our marriage cert will be in Chinese (getting married on Sept 15th whoohoo!!). Their embassy wont translate anything into English or certify any English translations (I've been through this already with some documentation before), so I guess its a "recognised translation agency".
So is there a list of these recognised agencies anywhere?

dutopia

Interesting post... I'm in a similar situation. I got married in South Korea but we got our marriage certificate translated by an approved Korean certificate translator. I'm sure the Chinese embassy must have dealt with this situation before...? Seems weird they don't know about that.

We may move back to Ireland next year and I've no idea how to register her for tax credentials, etc...

angelfire9

dutopia wrote: »

Interesting post... I'm in a similar situation. I got married in South Korea but we got our marriage certificate translated by an approved Korean certificate translator. I'm sure the Chinese embassy must have dealt with this situation before...? Seems weird they don't know about that.

We may move back to Ireland next year and I've no idea how to register her for tax credentials, etc...

Ok, when you get back to ireland you need to bring your wife to the local social welfare office and apply for her PPS number (you will need copy of her passport your marriage cert and proof of address for you)

As for OP you can apply for a change in tax credits from date of marriage but
from [url]www.revenue.ie:[/url]

In the year of marriage, for tax purposes, both spouses continue to be treated as two single people.

However, if the tax payable as two single people in that year is greater than the tax which would be payable as a married couple - a refund of the difference can be claimed.

Any refund due is apportioned by the number of months from the date of marriage to the end of the tax year and will be calculated after the end of the tax year. This refund normally only arises where a couple are liable at different tax rates where one spouse benefits from the unused lower tax rate/credits of the other spouse.

The form for and info about joint assessment can be found here:
http://www.revenue.ie/en/tax/it/leaflets/it2.html

m'lady

Hey I'm not trying to hijack the thread but am really confused on this! If the replies are correct then whats to stop people getting married abroad and as its not informed here they can continue living here as single people if it was to suit them financially tax wise etc?:rolleyes: