I am currently filling my first tax return and wanted to clarify some things around the foreign rental income I have. The property is in Poland (EU) - I am Polish citizen but have been working in Ireland for 10+ years so Irish resident for tax purposes.
I assumed that I pay the tax on rental income in Poland since the property is based there. Reading up on it now (including some posts on this forum) I understand that I was wrong... So now I have to declare that on my Form 11 (2015 was actually the first year I let that property). Some questions about that:
- is any rental income (minus expenses) considered as PAYE income for tax? Is both PAYE and USC apply to it?
- I have already paid tax in Poland for 2015 (and started paying for 2016...) - can that be deducted from any outstanding tax I owe Irish revenue for this?
- I didnt make any expense deductions in Poland when paying tax - does that mean I can make any allowable deductions here when doing tax return?
- should I actually stop paying tax in Poland for this and just sort it out with revenue going forward?
And most importantly, any figures I will be operating on are in different currency (Polish Zloty - PLN). I have seen a table with exchange rates for 2015 on revenue website but there is no PLN on it? I also saw an exchange table for "Customs" on their website and PLN is on it, but there is a table for each month in 2015 - which one should I use?
Thanks in advance.
I assumed that I pay the tax on rental income in Poland since the property is based there. Reading up on it now (including some posts on this forum) I understand that I was wrong... So now I have to declare that on my Form 11 (2015 was actually the first year I let that property). Some questions about that:
- is any rental income (minus expenses) considered as PAYE income for tax? Is both PAYE and USC apply to it?
- I have already paid tax in Poland for 2015 (and started paying for 2016...) - can that be deducted from any outstanding tax I owe Irish revenue for this?
- I didnt make any expense deductions in Poland when paying tax - does that mean I can make any allowable deductions here when doing tax return?
- should I actually stop paying tax in Poland for this and just sort it out with revenue going forward?
And most importantly, any figures I will be operating on are in different currency (Polish Zloty - PLN). I have seen a table with exchange rates for 2015 on revenue website but there is no PLN on it? I also saw an exchange table for "Customs" on their website and PLN is on it, but there is a table for each month in 2015 - which one should I use?
Thanks in advance.