Taxman revenge

All expats and Non residents should be registered and paying tax anyway, nothing to do with Brexit. 

Anyone who doesn't pay tax will generally get found out sooner or later, particularly if they own property as when the property is sold all unpaid back taxes should be deducted from the sale.

Property taxes are pretty much unavoidable whichever way you play the game but I think the point is that up until now there have effectively been no checks or controls on anybody's comings and goings making it all too easy for those so inclined to live under the radar for years - or in some cases decades.

With that coming to an end and the prospect of only being able to spend 90 days at a time here many of the chancers are going have to tread a little carefully if now applying for residencia.

Yer Ray everyone who has been renting out illegally has been caught and now pays their taxes. R you on planet moon ?  👻👻👻

Wayne - There were many of us were always legal about renting out our holiday homes!  So please do not tar us all with the same brush!  Yes, there were a lot of people letting out properties illegally but at least now they will find it harder.

I know on my community there were several 'residents' who had been there years unofficially, returning to the UK for hospital appointments two or three times a year and evading paying their Spanish taxes.  A couple have now sold up due to fear of being caught out by Brexit and tighter monitoring of their travels, a couple have become Spanish residents (reluctantly) and at least one has said 'nothing will change and I'll be fine'!  Spain needs to tighten up and I have no objection to people being fined for tax evasion.

I am not taring you all with same brush, my point is I bet their are more renting out illegally than paying taxes on rental. How's it been made harder ? The Spanish government is skint and don't have the manpower or resources to manage the problem simple as. 

It's now harder because the advertising platforms also get fined heavily for advertising a property without a license.  As a result no major website will list a property without a number.  It's illegal to advertise the property anywhere without quoting the license number in the ad.  I have seen a few ads on facebook without giving numbers but not on main portals.  They started fining the web site owners last summer resulting in hundreds of properties being taken down on one site alone.

Glad you have reappeared Ray with once again your negative responses  lol 

Ray they might be trawling these forums etc. They have Costa blaca Costa brava Costa del sol and so on do you really think they are on top of this ? Stop won't swear but stop burying your head up you know where ..... 

They are not negative there is a lot of us legal that get pissed off with those living off our backs