Spanish resident - how long can I spend in UK - Page 2

Are you talking about residency or qualifying as a Spanish National ?

These are the rules to keep your residency status if you obtained it under the Withdrawal Agreement. 

Maz 

Hi

An update so far on the information I have learnt so far. Please do not take this information as gospel and do obtain your own clarification.

I have received my Spanish residency which I wish to keep and will remain fiscally Spanish resident.

If I would like to spend, say, 4 months in UK and 8 months in Spain and I only want to do this for a couple of years it is within the 180 days a year and would be fine. Unfortunately HMRC have additional rules so if I want to do this for say the next 5 years and then you are only allowed an average of 93 days (including travel days) per year. 

It would appear that to spend 4 months in UK over several years I would have to take out duel residency.  I found this to be a very complicated subject with lots of grey areas as agreed by several UK advisors. When I have more info on this I will post the answers if anyone is still interested.

jole

An update after consulting a tax adviser in the UK. 

HMRC have scrapped the 'average over 4 years' part so it is 180 days in year. Obviously you need to stay well under this otherwise you would need to change residency but it means we can continue to spent 7+ months in Spain and the rest in the UK without having to worry too much.