Simplistic maybe !
The Italians may take the view that just because someone is technically based in Italy then they get all the taxes.
Some of us on commuting contract have House, Wife , Car in one EU State, are contracted to an airline in another EU state and are based in a third EU state.
If the roster falls my way I get on an aircraft from my state of residence, land in my Base EU state and then spend five days flying around Europe and then at the end of the duty get on an aircraft back to my state of residence. Wth luck I I will be in the EU state that I am Based in only a few hours a month.
What would the Lugano convention make of that ?
I have no objection to paying the correct tax in any EU state but my concern is that when my pension is due the EU state that I have been taxed in will not pay the pension on the grounds that I have never been a resident.
An English guy that I know who has been resident in France and paying French tax for 25 years has yet to get anything out of the French social security system simply because he is not French, I fear that this is just a Money grab by the EU states that are in economic trouble and that if I am forced to pay taxes in my base state but I will not get any pension from them when I retire.
As I have said above the EEC has to get its act together and come up with a common taxation policy that does not discriminate against those workers who live in one state and work in another.
Last edited by A and C; 24th October 2012 at 16:19.