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Joint or Separate Assesment

  • 27-04-2017 9:29am
    #1
    the-island-man
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 497 ✭✭


    Hi,
         My Wife and I moved to Switzerland in April 2016. We both worked in Ireland from January - March 2016 before leaving.

    We had a house rented in Ireland for 2016 for which I have a family member assigned as the tax collection agent. We are both Irish citizens, non-resident, ordinarily resident and domiciled in Ireland. My wife is on a 2 year career break from the public sector.

    I am trying to fill out a form 11 to declare the rental income earned. I am just wondering should this be a joint or separate declaration?
    As mentioned my wife is also on a career break so I presume this means that her employer is paying her PRSI contributions for the full year. Does this have any effect on our/her tax liability?
    Thanks in advance


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  • #2
    gerrybbadd
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,301 ✭✭✭✭gerrybbadd


    the-island-man wrote: »
    Hi,
         My Wife and I moved to Switzerland in April 2016. We both worked in Ireland from January - March 2016 before leaving.

    We had a house rented in Ireland for 2016 for which I have a family member assigned as the tax collection agent. We are both Irish citizens, non-resident, ordinarily resident and domiciled in Ireland. My wife is on a 2 year career break from the public sector.

    I am trying to fill out a form 11 to declare the rental income earned. I am just wondering should this be a joint or separate declaration?
    As mentioned my wife is also on a career break so I presume this means that her employer is paying her PRSI contributions for the full year. Does this have any effect on our/her tax liability?
    Thanks in advance

    What have ye been assessed as prior to this? If you choose separate assessment you will both need to make returns, but if you were already jointly assessed for that year, you can't retrospectivally change it.

    PRSI liability has no impact on your tax liability. I doubt the employer will be paying PRSI contributions on her behalf while she's away. PRSI contributions are calculated as a percentage of pay. If she has no pay, there's no PRSI to be contributed


  • #3
    Ciaran
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 939 ✭✭✭Ciaran


    If you're non-resident, you must be assessed separately unless all your joint income is taxable in Ireland.


  • #4
    the-island-man
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 497 ✭✭the-island-man


    Thank you for the replies. The online form 11 does not allow me to continue past the personal details section if it is set as a joint assessment.
    I have done a swiss tax return already and I found it way easier even in German than the Irish tax return. The Revenue's help guide should explain each number but it tends to only cover a whole section at a time. Also, each question on the online form is not numbered so you have to download the paper version so you can match the numbers with the help guide.


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