UK to end pensions for overseas spouses

[Arthur Little]

having to say this, given your circumstances, John. But then, of course ... ... it has to be said, nonetheless.

Maybe ... in view of the sheer number of British OAPs flocking to Spain for 6 months - purportedly to escape our harsh winters - albeit, quite possibly, (though I don't know for sure!) to pay lower tax. Which, in the event of the *latter (IF indeed, *IT turns out to be one of the reasons) ... then obviously our Government deems it necessary to recoup the resultant lost revenue from some source.

Let me stress again, with not being one of those pensioners myself,
I wouldn't know for certain.

However, what I do know - without a doubt - is that millionaire film stars, such as Sean Connery, choose to live in the likes of Marbella for precisely the alternative reason I've put forward.

's unfair and, IMO, simply not on!

[johncar54]

Sorry Arthur, the tax in Spain is quite a bit higher than in UK. Tax free allowance in UK is £10,600 in Spain it is around £5,000.

The UK Gov is not losing anything (apart from possibly all or some of the pensions are not being spent in UK). Pensioners in UK are able to claim more allowances than those who have chosen to live in Spain .

And according to Google, so to quote you, without a doubt, Sir Sean Connery actually does not live in Spain but in the Bahamas, which unlike Spain, is a tax haven.

[Arthur Little]

Sorry Arthur, the tax in Spain is quite a bit higher than in UK. Tax free allowance in UK is £10,600 in Spain it is around £5,000.

The UK Gov is not losing anything (apart from possibly all or some of the pensions are not being spent in UK). Pensioners in UK are able to claim more allowances than those who have chosen to live in Spain.

Points taken ... you're living in Spain, after all.

;And according to Google, so to quote you, without a doubt, Sir Sean Connery actually does not live in Spain but in the Bahamas, which unlike Spain, is a tax haven.

Perhaps now. But the following link to his biography indicates he did, in fact, reside in Marbella from 1974 as ... [I quote] a "tax exile", until selling up in 1991 and moving to the Bahamas.

www.biography.com/people/sean-connery-9255144:

Tax "avoidance", by celebrities in his "bracket" seems, therefore, to be commonplace.