Me again. I can't seem to get this bee out of my bonnet and the situation has changed since the last post.
I'm currently on a contract between my UK Ltd and my UK client, usual kind of stuff, except I now work from home 3 days a week and at the client site 2 days a week. This opens up a whole lot of opportunity to work from the Spanish place, though the tax implications worry me. Also, I'm not getting any younger and neither is the missus. I find myself living/funding/maintaining 3 properties. It's madness and I need to simplify things, i.e. sell the UK home and move to Spain. Move out of the London apartment and into a hotel for the 1 or 2 nights I'm there. It's no more difficult or expensive flying from Malaga to London and back than it is the North of England to London and back on the train.
There seems like a LOT of work on the current gig so I could be there a while hopefully. When it ends I have my eyes set on a technology park in Malaga that houses some 650 companies and is only 20 mins from my place, although contracting isn't big out there (and neither are the rates!). I guess I'd have to do this as an 'autonomo' or something.
Of course, yesterdays triggering of Article 50 clouds the issue even more.
Guess I just need to grow a couple of balls and just do it and see where it goes. We have no kids or family ties to speak of anymore and I'm growing disillusioned with the UK.
I'm currently on a contract between my UK Ltd and my UK client, usual kind of stuff, except I now work from home 3 days a week and at the client site 2 days a week. This opens up a whole lot of opportunity to work from the Spanish place, though the tax implications worry me. Also, I'm not getting any younger and neither is the missus. I find myself living/funding/maintaining 3 properties. It's madness and I need to simplify things, i.e. sell the UK home and move to Spain. Move out of the London apartment and into a hotel for the 1 or 2 nights I'm there. It's no more difficult or expensive flying from Malaga to London and back than it is the North of England to London and back on the train.
There seems like a LOT of work on the current gig so I could be there a while hopefully. When it ends I have my eyes set on a technology park in Malaga that houses some 650 companies and is only 20 mins from my place, although contracting isn't big out there (and neither are the rates!). I guess I'd have to do this as an 'autonomo' or something.
Of course, yesterdays triggering of Article 50 clouds the issue even more.
Guess I just need to grow a couple of balls and just do it and see where it goes. We have no kids or family ties to speak of anymore and I'm growing disillusioned with the UK.
Comment