Husband wants to move to dubai

[Dilemma87]

My husband is a businessman in property and with the recent proposed tax changes and new rules putting limits on how long he can keep doing things from the UK, he’s now saying he needs to move to Dubai and operate from there.

We actually have some friends there, and his business partner is already based out there, so on paper it all sounds easy enough. His plan is to buy a second property in Dubai and move there by himself, while I stay here with the kids.

The problem is, the children are really settled one’s in high school and the other is due to start soon, so moving them just isn’t an option. He’s suggested that we (me and the kids) fly out to Dubai every school holiday to spend time with him.

The catch is, under his visa he can only be out of Dubai for 90 days a year, so he’d basically have to live there full-time.

AIBU to think this is just not going to work long-term? I can’t help but feel like this is the start of living completely separate lives.

No worries. I often find I like places in Europe more than the UK. But because of Brexit we're stuck here!!!

Oh really? Well this thread shows that quite a few people will care very much if I move to Dubai so I can pay lower taxes 😂😂😂

Why is it racist to criticise Dubai's abhorrent laws and customs? Especially as it's currently actively facilitating Sudan's genocide against non-Arabs, a genocide already being compared to Rwanda? They have the blood of countless innocent people on their hands. What a ridiculous and unhelpful statement.

Yes, I certainly would criticise people who holiday in countries with those kinds of laws and customs. There are degrees to this : I'd tate Saudi Arabia & Qatar as worse than, say, the US, though I disagree with several US laws.

Why can't people heat their cars up like this on cold days?

Would you be happy to pay current tax level if it yielded good public services? Currently, ofc, it's not.

It is quite remarkable that this is the case, darent mention this or your're a bigot even though the people who feel and believe that tend mostly to come from the ME from countries who share a culture with countries like Dubai

But on the other hand, keyboard warriors are furious that a sovereign country has whatever laws and rules and beliefs it has inside its own country for its own people, but its fine to bring those sorts of beliefs outside of that and those countries and bring them over here

Baffling.

Would you be happy to pay current tax level if it yielded good public services? Currently, ofc, it's not.

The UK is responsible for so many horrendous things.
the Israel - Palestine conflict
India Pakistan ongoing conflict
Iraq! Syria!
even freaking Iran is where it is because of British interference (and US)
and before you say “oh it was a long time ago” - it is ongoing current suffering because of what your country did a hundred years ago.
or 50 years ago.
or 10 years ago.

this holier than thou attitude needs a bit of reality check

If you're counting me as a keyboard warrior, I certainly condemn Muslim homophobia & misogyny, it's a big concern of mine esp re immigration. These concerns aren't mutually exclusive. Lots of MN are anti immigration and condemn Dubai, esp in the feminist section.

And why should Dubai being a sovereign nation make its laws exempt from criticism? What a destructive and ridiculous statement. Nazi Germany had laws forbidding Jews from lots of things- was that alright because it was a sovereign country? What about Soviet laws suppressing free speech? Saudi Arabian laws forbidding women driving? All OK because 'sovereign countries'?

What a morally bankrupt response.

You understand tax but don’t understand the detriment of high earners leaving because of high tax?

Is math not your forte.

Virtually everytime I get the standard 3 quotes for a job at least one will give me a price for cash. This has been the case over the last 35 years that I have used thrir services.

It was dishonest in 1990 and still is today.
Ofcourse, those who are happy to pay cash in hand are just as dishonest.

It is nothing knew. There are so many ways for dishonest people and companys to avoid tax.

As far as I know. My internet search tells me there's no guardianship laws restricting non Muslim women in marriages with non Muslim men. They can divorce freely and/or leave the country with no restriction?

The migrant labour problem is real.

I don't know what's happening in Sudan, is the UK funding genocide as well by supporting Israel?

I don’t most on this thread can do basic math. So they’ll probably cheer if you took your pesky taxes with you.

Yes. But the bashing of high earners also needs to stop. It’s really tiresome.

I’m not actually planning to move to Dubai (I hate the place😁) or another low tax jurisdiction. The reason I will consider moving will be actually if Farage / Reform gets in.

although few years in Singapore could be nice, just to travel that part of the world

And who is not going to welcome them back.

There is some truth in all of these. I'm a history student at uni currently and have knowledge of several. I will expand on each in a minute.

However, are you equating Dubai's facilitating of the Sudan genocide with the tragedies you mentioned?

Or are you comparing Saudi Arabia & Qatar's laws with those tragedies you mentioned?

Or both? Would you mind clarifying?

Also note that many, including me, criticise both of these things. Do the UK's previous bad actions mean we can never criticise other countries? That's the logical extension of your view : surely you don't believe that?

Hmmm. To me i ask if the tax burden is already high, why don't we have the money for services?

Why would a little bit more be the solution?

You've given me pause for taught though.

And yet so many on here are shitting a brick because high tax payers are leaving.

This. Anyone trying to avoid paying their dues is a scum bag, frankly.
I was a SAHM for years, dependent on my husband. Had he suggested what yours is, I’d have left.

Sure. According to the official stats, 1% of earners (which is about 300 000 people) pays 30% of all income tax proceeds.

keep cheering 😁

To me he would be saying 'I want to break up with you and move to Dubai'.

I understand wanting to leave for tax purposes, especially as he has friends already there.

But I don't understand his suggestion that you stay in the UK with the kids - why would he want that? So he can live the single life in Dubai and do whatever tf he wants with no wife and kids to consider. He will 99% be seeing other women, why wouldn't he?

That would be a no from me. Either we'd all go, or we would break up.

Not suggested, but insisted. Wasn’t going to happen.

I don’t believe that but people can’t act horrified if someone is landing or working in Dubai. This is pathetic.
it is possible criticising other governments without behaving like your country never did anything wrong.

If you wore a Rolex out in the streets of London there's a good chance you'd die.

You wear one in Dubai, no issue whatsoever

🇸🇩. I wouldn't go to Dubai for a shit.