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I shudder to think what #andre will pay in Exit Tax. Only his primary home will escape some CGT. 

I'm still struggling with mine and have a cross border tax consultant working on it and will post the outcome.

EU CGT
Belgium 0%

Croatia 12%

Isle of Man 0%

Poland 19%

Spain 23%

UK £11,100 annual exemption then sliding scale

Portugal 28%

SA will not tax Capital Gains as it is residency based according to the DTA.

Stocks held in SA will be capped at 15% by the DTA for DWT.

Source: Me

Welcome Leon.    Unfortunately you will not find any wisdom from me as I have become as stupid as the markets.

Portuguese people only go to bed at 3 am.

Here is why you should duck.

This is really going to be interesting tax wise. You will have to do stacks of juggling here trying to keep your tax residency in SA. Gets very complicated in this case.

In the first place EU countries.

You’re automatically resident if either:

1.You spent 183 or more days in the country in the tax year
2.Your only home was in that country - you must have owned, rented or lived in it for at least 91 days in total - and you spent at least 30 days there in the tax year.

So you would have to relocate to a different country every 90 days to escape being tax resident.

If you happen to get this right then you have a further problem. SA will regard you as non resident after 183 days absence and all your properties will be regarded as a "deemed" sold at the valuation on the day you left and CGT will be payable.
Good news is that you have 5 years to pay it in yearly increments. With interest though.

More later. Beer time.

So far ADI has dropped about 12% in 2 days and tomorrow it goes ex-divi so will drop some more. Been checking and find no reason for this. It should be going up with the zar weakening. I will hold as she always comes up with a hat trick like a new acquisition. Results were good in this stagnant economy.

Then your center of life must remain in SA. This is not always possible. Had we not formally emigrated, our center of life is now in Portugal and we would be classed as non SA residents anyway.