Please sanity check/ challenge my residency plan
Evening
So looks like the Brexit bill will has almost cleared the stage gates which will see the UK leave the EU on 31st Jan 2020.
For us we will be marketing our UK property again just after Christmas with a hope to selling it by June/ July/ August 2020.
Once we have sold we intend to come over again to Spain and look at our preferred areas, which we have already visited and viewed, with the intention of buying something.
Here's where I need some help;
Situation: We do not want to apply for residency in the Spanish tax year 2020 Jan to Dec because we would have to pay a reasonably hefty CGT bill on our UK house sale. Instead we hope to buy H2 next year but apply for residency January 2021. We do want to live in our Spanish home in Q3 & 4 of 2020.
Given we will be in the transition period do you think that we could buy in July/ August 2020 with the intention of spending less than 186 days in the country, being the condition where tax residency applies, do you think we could effectively live out there for the period from July/ August through to the Dec 31st before applying for residency on Jan 1st 2021 or near as damn it.
I've read from Jims Guides that anyone planning to spend more than 90 days in Spain has to register at the local Police station - what does this registration actually signify in the big scheme of things?
Interested in your views - you should make the assumption that we will both have private medical cover and be remitting funds to the value set by the "post Brexit" conditions.
Thanks.