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Eliott   
8 Feb 2024
Real Estate / Renting out my Polish apartment, while residing outside EU - where do I pay tax on rental income? [5]

thanks.

3. what other tax issues do you have in mind?

What would you see as the best course of action?
keep on renting through an agency or just sell it? I would prefer keeping it because I think it's a good investment, but if it's going to cause complicated tax issues later on (me not residing in Poland long-term), I guess selling outright is better?
Eliott   
8 Feb 2024
Real Estate / Renting out my Polish apartment, while residing outside EU - where do I pay tax on rental income? [5]

Hi, I own an apartment in Poland.

I have a few questions I was hoping some of you may be help with.

1. I would like to rent out the apartment, because I would like to move out to a non-EU country and reside there long-term.
Which country should I pay the rental income tax to?
In principle, it should be the tax residence country (the non-EU where I would spend more than 6M/year), but is Polish tax office going to chase me anyway?

2. Will I still be liable to pay the property tax in Poland? Would the Polish tax office be able to contact me in the non-EU country to let me know how much I should pay?

3. What if I would like to sell the apartment, while my tax residence is already in the non-EU country?
Should I pay the property sale tax to Poland or the other country?

Thank you!
Eliott   
6 Jun 2022
Law / EU citizen, inviting a non-EU fiancée and wanting to get married, best course of action? [4]

Hi Atch,

yes we actually plan to do that, even though it may later complicate the legalization of the marriage in Poland (again translating all of mine and her documents into Polish and verifying with Polish authorities, which may take a long time as I heard). And we would probably need that in order to get her a Polish temporary residence permit based on that marriage (or not? would it just be enough to translate the marriage certificate by a sworn translator and that's it? don't know..)

But as I was reading further, I am pretty sure she wouldn't need any visa after that, she would just apply for a temporary residence permit/card based on being married to me and that would allow her to stay for as long as that permit would be valid (and travel around Schengen, and later apply for a new temporary residence permit/card).

And she also wouldn't need to travel back to her home country.
I have found out that a 3rd country person can apply for a temporary residence permit/card even based on an informal relationship (but yes, needs to prove the relationship with sufficient evidence and regular/stable income - and that can't be done by the informal partner, unless they sign some annuity contract, which I have no idea what it is) [attached screenshot]

So it looks pretty positive. Now we just hope she actually gets the visa.

these are some useful links in case someone comes across similar issues
migrant.poznan.uw.gov.pl/en/procedury/i-am-informal-relationship
infoopt.pl/pierwsze-kroki-podstawowe-informacje/
infoopt.pl/legalizacja-pobytu-obywatele-panstw-trzecich/



Eliott   
5 Jun 2022
Law / EU citizen, inviting a non-EU fiancée and wanting to get married, best course of action? [4]

Hello,

I am from an EU country, have been working in Poland for 3 years, have been in a relationship with a non-EU person for 7 years, separated for 2 years due to the pandemic. I had lived with her for 4 years in her country while I stayed there. She visited me on a one-month Schengen travel visa just before the pandemic.

I am currently in the process of getting an invitation letter (invitation for 9 months) so that she may apply for a visa in her country (we wrote to the Polish embassy there and they replied that she can apply which is seen as a preliminary positive based on other people's experiences [those that don't get any reply would just be rejected]) and then ideally stay with me for longer than just the maximum 90 days that any Schengen visa allows.

However, we don't know what's the best course of action.

From what I gathered, even though she may apply for a national visa based on the invitation letter from me (i.e. we are not yet married, but in the national visa application, she can tick the "visiting family/friends" checkbox as the reason - the same as in the case of a Schengen visa), the most likely outcome is that this would not be approved and thus it's best to apply for a Schengen visa.

The issue with Schengen visa is that it allows for a maximum stay of 90 days in 180 days.
We would like to get married and make it possible for her to stay with me in Poland, without having to go back to her home country in the process (mostly due to extremely expensive flight tickets but generally, it would be best if she doesn't need to go back). Is this possible?

It is difficult for me to understand a few things:

If she comes on Schengen visa, registers her temporary residence, we get married - can she (does she have to?) then apply for a national visa here in Poland in order to be able to stay longer than 3 months? Does she need national visa in the first place? (i.e. can't she just come on Schengen visa, we get married, she applies for a residence card and can stay?)

When one has a residence permit, does one still need underlying visa? Is that residence permit issued only up to the visa expiry?

Thanks a lot for any hints