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Oh... Google Nigel Farage, one of the big clowns in the Brexit movement before the referendum. Britain was going to be able to spend millions of pounds each year in healthcare iif Britain left.
He didn't waste a minute the day after the referendum. He was just "Yeah... My work here is done. See ya guys. Good luck." On the question about the NHS (healthcare) he just smiled and said that it was just a theoretical example. And then he left.
it was glorious. By then I really hoped the ones voting yes to Brexit would understand where it was going...but nooooooo.... They still thought it was going in the right direction even though the rats left the ship.
The amount of humor really peaked a year or two ago when British were stopped at the Spanish border. When interviewed they said they were surprised that they had to bring passports. If they knew this would be a result of Brexit they would never have voted yes.
The real fun were the British immigrants( who of course called themseves ex-pats) who lived full time in Spain. Most were retirees that migrated to avoid taxes and extend their retirement funds.
After Brexit, Spain said "okay, you have a year to file as a permanent resident/citizen and setup a tax ID, or you will require a Visa."
So of course, a lot of them didn't follow the new law and were summarily ejected from Spain to Britain. This includes people who owned homes in Spain, and had no legal residences in Britan. They then needed to file for Visas to go back to Spain, and apply for citizenship the long and hard way, which is not guaranteed.
Can you guess how many of them were saying they would never have voted for Brexit if they knew it would affect their immigration status too?
Who in their right mind would vote for brexit while living outside of britain soley thanks to the EU uniformity?
Do we really need to answer that question for you?
Who? The people who refuse to call themselves immigrants and instead invented the word expat, you know, to distinguish themselves from the people they were perfectly happy to see hurt by Brexit. Unfortunately (but rightly) the word expat was not the shield they thought it was.
Sounds like tax fraud, because if you stay for a longer time in another country and/or the main part of your life happens in that place, it is very likely that you have to pay taxes in the new home country.
If they live in Spain and pay Spanish taxes, how is that tax fraud?
Are you sure, they do?
Are you sure they don't?
No, that's why I said, that it sounded like tax fraud. So, now that you distracted from it, back to the topic: Are you sure they pay taxes in Spain?
As far as I know people move to Spain when they retire because the cost of living is much lower there. So they get their pension from the country they are from and the pay Spanish taxes since the line in Spain.
So they avoid the tax in their home country which often is higher.
It's ok if you want to think that there is an enormous tax fraud going on, it doesn't matter.
Tbh the thing about the NHS was Boris' stunt not Nigel
I've seen interviews of British retirees in Spain who said straight up: "the point of Brexit was to stop Europeans from coming to Britain not to stop us from going to Spain. If we had known that we would have never voted leave". I kid you not...