What you actually keep in Spain
| Company revenue | UK resident | Standard rates | Beckham regime |
|---|---|---|---|
| £60,000 | £46,831 | £36,681-£10,150 | £46,254-£577 |
| £100,000 | £66,668 | £57,456-£9,212 | £75,931+£9,263 |
| £150,000 | £87,303 | £83,181-£4,122 | £112,681+£25,378 |
| £250,000 | £130,448 | £134,631+£4,183 | £186,181+£55,733 |
Every figure above is a separate call to the same engine the calculator uses, run at build time on 2026-08-12. The green column is the best available outcome at that income.
The Spain options, priced
- Standard rates. Ordinary Spanish rates, which combine a state and a regional component, so the exact figure varies by autonomous community.
- Beckham regime. The special expatriate regime. A flat rate on employment income for up to six years, and foreign income largely outside the Spanish net.
What actually moves the number
- The Beckham regime is designed around employment, so the structure you arrive with decides whether you can use it.
- Spain runs a wealth tax as well as income tax, and it is regional. Madrid and Andalusia are not Catalonia.
- Spanish residence is the 183-day test, and Spain counts sporadic absences towards it rather than against it.
When Spain starts taxing you
183 days in a calendar year, or your main centre of economic interests being in Spain. Spain does not have split-year treatment the way the UK does, so the year you move is usually all or nothing.
The other half is the UK side. Leaving the UK tax net is the Statutory Residence Test, and running a UK company from outside the UK raises Central Management and Control and Permanent Establishment questions that are separate from your own residence. Running a UK limited company while living abroad covers both.
What this calculation assumes
- The company is assumed to distribute everything it can in the same year, after a director salary at the UK National Insurance threshold. Leaving profit in the company, or paying into a pension from it, changes the answer and is usually worth modelling.
- Corporation tax is charged at UK rates throughout, because a company incorporated in the UK stays UK tax resident wherever its director lives.
- Cross-border scenario detected. Check the applicable double-tax treaty between United Kingdom and Spain.
- Source-country (United Kingdom) dividend withholding tax of 0% applied on the gross dividend; a foreign tax credit is granted in Spain up to the residence-country liability (relief under the applicable double-tax treaty).
- Special regime applied: flat employment rate
- State scale shown; regions add their own (combined top ~45-50%). Savings income taxed separately 19-30%.
The last items are the engine's own disclosures, reproduced rather than summarised. Where a regime is not modelled it is named as not modelled, because a caveat you have to go looking for is not a caveat.