The card that proves your legal status in Spain follows your authorization. Fees, the EX-17 form, renewals, the changes you must report within a month, and lost cards.
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A wire funded from your U.S. bank account is outside the 1 percent remittance tax. The exchange-rate margin is the cost that matters, and Spain declares cash, not wires, from 10,000 euros.
Your broker's policy decides what you can still buy, the PFIC rules make a European fund an expensive fix, and Spain reports the account on Modelo 720 and counts it for the wealth tax.
The Streamlined Foreign Offshore Procedures let Americans in Spain file three years of returns and six years of FBARs without penalties. Eligibility turns on 330 days abroad, and the window moves.
Payments continue for U.S. citizens in Spain and can land in a Spanish euro account. Spain taxes the benefit and deducts the U.S. tax, and the 1988 agreement still governs totalization.
Federal tax follows your citizenship to Spain. State tax follows your domicile, and California and New York keep former residents on the books unless the move is documented. What each state tests.
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