Capital gains tax selling UK buying Spanish property

DM.  I don´t know what your suituation is.

If you are not yet resident in Spain (green card)if you sell  your family home in UK, before becoming resident in Spain, you can roll over the net sale price from the UK home when buying a family home in Spain, without incurring any CGT liability

Hi John - thanks for your quick reply

Without going into all the details here

1. NIE yes
2. Resident - not yet as I have set myself up as autonomo and need to show income first before they will allow me to submit application
3. Empadronamiento - yes

Does that help ? Cheers

Sorry but your reply is confusing

If one is permanently in Spain for 90 days they must register on the EU citizens Register (green paper).

If any of these apply you are tax resident in Spain; 
       If you have moved to Spain then you are tax resident immediately and are obliged to register on the EU citizens Register.
        If one is in Spain for a total of 183 in a year they automatically are tax resident in Spain.
        If Spain is the centre of one´s economic activities.


An NIE only, the white paper, is only a fiscal ID number and does imply whether or not one is actually living here.

However registering on the Padrón can legally only be done by a `person who is living in a town, in their main residence.  Example a person living in say Madrid who has a holiday home on a costa cannot register on the padrón in the town where the holiday home is.

A person who is tax resident in Spain is obliged to pay income tax on their worldwide income (excluding a UK crown pension or rental income on a property in UK, both of which are taxable in UK, but both must be declared in Spain as they can affect the amount of tax due in Spain on other income) and on any property located anywhere in the world, which is in addition to their main home in Spain.

From what you say, it appears you are tax resident in Spain.