My spanish wife, is still working in spain and resident in Spain.
However she comes here sometimes and can work from home.
I don't understand if I have to register her as resident or not.
We don't know in advance if she will stay more than 180 days, nor even 90 consecutive days, as occasionally she must travel for work. Or I also spend sometime working remotely from spain, so we can stay there more.
We also have long weekend and holidays and long weekends often out of Switzerland.
I don't understand what to do taxwise and registration wise.
If I register her here, I think I should pay also health insurance, but she has already a private insurance in spain than cover travel abroad.
And she pays taxes in Spain of course.
Not sure what to do or where to find information
She’s not living here permanently so isn’t a resident. However, as a “tourist” she shouldn’t really work while she’s here.
Well..
So many people work remotely these days...I'm the only one in this situation?
It depends on the local community from what I remember. Some require residents to register 'tourists' after certain number of days and charge a small tourist tax.
I was staying with a friend in the mountains a few years back for an extended period and the police turned up one morning as I had not been registered....
Lots of people do, but that does not mean it is legal. There is not legal right not even in the EU for moving to another state and work remotely as the primary visa holder. I think they are working on something to cover it, but have not heard anything else.
It works because non of the EU/EEA/CH states bother to check it, but if checked it is your responsibility to prove that you were there as a tourist. The most likely people to be interest in this are loss adjusters if you have occasion to make a substantial claim. If all you did was fly in, stay at your partners house and work for four weeks and then fly home, it will be hard to demonstrate you did tourist type activities while there....
I don't see it as a big issue, but I guess if you are one of the small number caught out it could be a significant expense.
Don't necessarily believe what people write in an internet forum.
Your local immigration and/or tax office could help you if you don't understand the information that's available online.
Much will depend on how often and how long. It very much seems to me that the working from home is in your case is not occasional but rather weeks, potentially months at a time and for this I think you're supposed to notify the authorities. This doesn't necessarily mean she'd need a permit, not until she goes over the day limits. And no, you're not alone; Many people do it and don't say anything. Often it's a "who's going to know?" thing.
After 180 days in CH I'm quite sure she'd in any case become tax resident here, if anyone were to know.
If she's here and goes away on a work trip or even a short holiday and returns to Switzerland these are usually still counted as days in Switzerland.
In the worst she is a tax resident in Switzerland and Spain with on top of that headache inducing social security bureaucracy.
https://www.fedlex.admin.ch/eli/cc/1...4_1184_1184/de
30 days with working, even with short interruptions, are enough for Swiss tax residency.
A split residency of a married couple is possible but will need extra proof as the center of life is usually assumed at a shared place.
Quite.
Here are the rules for short-term working. Beyond 90 days per calendar year the worker must have a work permit. For under 8 days there's no requirement to notify the authorities. This is all separate from the question of taxation.
Generally speaking any gainful activity carried out within Switzerland is liable to tax . This is separate from whether you are tax resident or domiciled in Switzerland - if you are these, then you are liable for tax on worldwide income.
More information here . It's a complex area, and it seems that countries haven't yet caught up with changes in working practices!
I don't think anyone here can give you a definitive answer.