Anyone thinking of emigrating?

You seem selective in your reading comprehension, if you actually do read and not just skim. I am in the process of emigrating and have said so more than once. No need to lecture or advise me to do that. My life is complicated. Some of those complications involve having offspring in education and putting what I believe to be in their best interest, above my own. Others are legal - now recently solved.

So you don't like someone not thinking this country is the cutest, bestest and niciest countries in the whole wide world - tough. Sorry to have bruised your national pride/ego and to have opinions and perspectives that differ from your own, but I'm not sorry. Suck it up, not everyone in life will agree with you or stroke your ego for you.

There is a bit of a difference between claiming you would do something and doing it for real. I have done it for real, you haven't. If you would yank your child a year or two prior to sitting the leaving cert, and move them to another country, bully for you. I wouldn't and didn't.

Maybe a thread on people wanting to emigrate isn't the best place for you to be spending your time, given your sensitivities. I do admire you for not trotting out the trite 'don't let the door hit you on the way out', that was refreshing.

I don't know what rightwing means to you, but if you are working and still don't earn enough to pay for a roof over your head, to me that is the epitome of a rightwing economy.

Sure, thankfully there is a safety net for the worst off - but how long do you want to rely on that for? It certainly covers the basic needs, but that's all it will ever do and after one year, five years, ten years you'll still be in the same place.

37% of income earners pay no income tax - the mind boggles. At least there's VAT, I suppose.

No one emigrates to find an equal or more equal society.

They emigrate so that they can do better than equal.

Ah, but the new country gives them a better opportunity to do better.

Well, it just shows the mindset of some people, doesn't it?

Most people emigrate in order to find somewhere that will allow them the opportunity to better for themselves (and their family).

Others want to do it so they can do better than the other guy.

I'm still young enough that I pack up and go. I have a trade,no kids,don't owe anything on the house but I just couldn't do it. I see how well my friends are doing out in Canada,UK,Oz and Spain and I admire them for taking the jump as they are all really happy with themselves now. If you look at how it is here with high tax, fuel costs, awful health service,can't buy a house,expensive day to day living, childcare and not to mention the covid nonsense then I wouldn't begrudge anyone for wanting to move abroad

I’d be very careful and have them and yourself speak to an accountant with experience in cross border working. I’ve just been caught out myself as I still work for a company in the U.K. and moved back 3 years ago.

If you go to Spain and you work there for more than X days a year you’ll be tax resident and your Firm will 100% have to register for Corporation Tax. Spain is extremely restrictive as a remote working location.

It isn’t if governments start acting differently, it’s the fact they need to as their tax regulations don’t allow for long term remote working at the moment, it’s archaic!

Trust me, it’s taken 2 months so far for my situation to get only half sorted, and that’s with the 6th largest accountancy firm in the world who are based here and the U.K. so know each side of things.

They were telling they’re working with an Irish girl who went to the Netherlands at the start of lockdown last year, they’ve slapped her with a €27k tax bill because she didn’t know she’d become tax resident!

When I moved back and told Revenue my situation they registered me as self employed and said just fill out a self assessment each year - this is the opposite of the correct way of doing it. Hence having a nightmare sorting it all out, and that’s the Revenue who should know!

Specialist accountant before you do a tap!