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can you be domiciled in france and resident in the UK at the same time?
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searcher30
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can you be domiciled in france and resident in the UK at the same time?
is the wife supposed to be in the same tax situation as the husband? i imagine under uk law can be resident/domiciled in one coutnry and the husband in another?
under french law would this not be different? there are no kids involved ( i know under french tax that if you have children your husband is deemed to be resident in the same country as wife). can anyone enlighten me.
thanks in advance
is the wife supposed to be in the same tax situation as the husband? i imagine under uk law can be resident/domiciled in one coutnry and the husband in another?
under french law would this not be different? there are no kids involved ( i know under french tax that if you have children your husband is deemed to be resident in the same country as wife). can anyone enlighten me.
thanks in advance
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Please explain the background to your question a little further. The short answer is "yes", but the fundemental point here is that the word "domicile" has a quite a different meaning in English and Scottish law then it does for French law.
For the former one is domiciled in the place that is one's permanent home (even if you've never actually lived there) whereas in France domicile is the place with closest fiscal connections.0 -
You are resident in France if you have a home there and you spend half the year there. You are resident in the UK if you spend 183 days in anyone tax year here or average 91 days per annum over a 4 year period here. You can be resident in both France and the UK at the same time, if so there are tie-breakers as to where you are resident - where you have available accommodation, where your centre of economic interest are, etc.
Domiciel is generally a UK concept separate to residence. you are domiciled in the country that your father was domiciled - ie if your father was Uk domiciled you are UK domiciled unless you change domicile to a domicile of choice. Your domicile is not where you live but where you want to die. if you are UK domiciled it is hard to lose your UK domicile you have to firmly set up your life elsewhere and minimise your UK affairs.
Under UK law you and your wife are assessed separately so in theory what you do and what your wife does are unconneceted. However, your family interests are taken into account for residence and domicile purposes.0 -
Dear County Cook
thank you for your input. this is a divorce issue. the lady is french
resident, paying/declaring for taxes in france. the husband has always been
a resident in the UK bu to take his divorce in france (where he hopes to
gain the lady's share in her house in divorce) he is making himself french
domicile (though he has never paid any french taxes - dont know if he pays
any uk taxes either for that fact but that is another issue.
so are you saying that if you are french domicile he should actually make
french declaration to the tax office? do you know where can find out about
this french tax aspect of domicile?0
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