Tax to the UK or Ireland?

Seohelp

I’m hoping I might be able to get some advice about a situation I’m in that has my head spinning with the contradictory info I’ve read and heard.

Over the past two and a half years, I’ve worked for a UK business. However, I’m based in the Republic of Ireland, working from home to do this role. I travel to the UK office for three days each fortnight.

Since I started working from abroad for the UK Company, I’ve paid my PAYE and NI to the UK. However, I am an Irish resident and am slightly concerned that a tax bill could be hiding in the wings somewhere for the future.

I understand the “double taxation treaty” is in place between the UK and Ireland to avoid double taxation occurring.

However, I’ve also read that the employee is liable to pay the higher tax contribution of the two countries. If this is the case, then I’d expect to owe the Irish government monies due to them having higher rates (at least with the new universal social charge?).

I’d imagine this situation is becoming more common an increasing number of people working-from-home and traveling between countries these days.
However, I am struggling to find much in the way of definitive answers to where to pay tax.

Any help or advice would be really appreciated. Thanks.

jimbly

I am no expert but to me it would appear that you are "domiciled" in Ireland and the income you make in the UK is classed as foreign income. There is some info somewhere which tells you how many days you must live in a country to be domicled for tax purposes. TO me you seemed domicled in ROI
I reckon you should be paying this tax to the revenue commissioners here. You should be able to claim back the tax and NI you paid in the UK and this can be used to offset your outstanding tax liabilty here.
I had a similar problem some years ago when I started to draw down(early) a UK company pension. Intitally I paid my the tax in the UK but after a couple of years the UK income tax wrote to me to say I should be paying the this tax in the ROI.
They refunded the tax I paid I and just "put my hands up" to revenue here saying I had understed my income and paid up what I was due. They will need some sort of proof you are domicled here.
I get a tax code each sure from UK income tax which is NT(no tax) so my pension provider in the UK does not tax me.
So you should be able to get similar so your do not pay tax in the Uk on your UK income.
I suggest you sort it out soon " becaus they will get you in the end"

Legend100

Just to note - domiciled has nothing to do with number of days in a country - that is residence.

Domiciled is more to do with "where you put your roots down" albeit that it a rough description of its meaning.

You can only have one domicile but you can be tax resident in more than one country