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Taxation of married people when spouse is in another country

  • 30-11-2017 02:51PM
    #1
    XVII
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 338 ✭✭


    Hello people,

    Maybe someone could help me with the following situation or could point me into the right direction where I could ask this: I work in a standard IT company, pay standard tax, have 3300 tax credits and my cut-off is 33,800. But here is the situation: I got married last year (in Ireland), my spouse is from outside of EU, and is only moving to Ireland next year. My question is are my tax credits or cut-offs anyhow affected by the fact that I'm married, even though my spouse hasn't moved over yet? Or everything stays the same until she's actually here for long-term?

    Thanks!


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  • #2
    seamus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 68,190 ✭✭✭✭seamus


    You may be able to claim some relief at the end of the year:

    https://www.revenue.ie/en/life-events-and-personal-circumstances/marital-status/marriage-and-civil-partnerships/residency-and-employment-status.aspx


  • #3
    exaisle
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,676 ✭✭✭exaisle


    Everything stays the same until she joins you here. You have to be married AND living together to qualify for the married credit and bands.


  • #4
    XVII
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 338 ✭✭XVII


    1:1

    where would I be able to clarify this? Will citizen information service be able to help? I heard revenue helpline can be quite useless for tricky questions


  • #5
    nokia3310
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23 ✭nokia3310


    You will continue to be taxed as a single person during the year however if you submit a copy of your marriage certificate and a statement from the tax authority where your wife lives of her earnings for last year Revenue will calculate the level of tax relief you would be entitled to as a married person and give you relief in a lump sum. This is called aggregation relief.


  • #6
    XVII
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 338 ✭✭XVII


    nokia3310 wrote: »
    You will continue to be taxed as a single person during the year however if you submit a copy of your marriage certificate and a statement from the tax authority where your wife lives of her earnings for last year Revenue will calculate the level of tax relief you would be entitled to as a married person and give you relief in a lump sum. This is called aggregation relief.

    googled "aggregation relief" and was able to find this pdf from revenue:
    https://www.revenue.ie/ga/tax-professionals/historic-material/tax-briefing/2007/tax-briefing-issue-67-2007.pdf

    it has my case described on page 2.

    Thanks all!


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