Legal & Tax Differences between Marriage & Open-marriage

[KatGrrl]

Hi,

Does anyone know if there are any differences, legal & tax-wise, between being legally married and being 'married' in an open marriage? Kiitos

[sinikala]

Hi,

Does anyone know if there are any differences, legal & tax-wise, between being legally married and being 'married' in an open marriage? Kiitos

Being allowed to reclaim travel expenses if you work away from home in the circumstances that (i) you rent your main place of residence and (ii) you don't have kids.

[Hank W.]

Taxwise the vero "believes" the spousal joint income in heterosexual man-woman relationships.

Legally, an "open" relationship has no recourse, so in case the partner dies and there is no will, the other partner has no say in the estate unless the papers have been done in 'both names'.

Also legally the things are somewhat straightforward. Say I was married and my wife ran away and had a child with somebody else. Legally, I am the father of that child.

Then again you can have a couple living together common law and have 10 kids together, and still when the 11th pops up, the county child welfare controller sends the mother a notice "bring forth the father of the child". (its alla bout money, if the mom claims the father is unknown the county has to pay the child support)

[KatGrrl]

Being allowed to reclaim travel expenses if you work away from home in the circumstances that (i) you rent your main place of residence and (ii) you don't have kids.

Thanks sinikala! So you're saying that a legally married spouse can claim travel expenses (as a form of tax deduction, I suppose?) IF the residence is rented and there're no kids? How does one do that in practical terms? and what kind of travel expenses do you mean? Tram & bus fares, airfare back to the spouse's home country (assuming he/she's not Finnish)?

And are there any websites on this?

... if the mom claims the father is unknown the county has to pay the child support

Thanks Hank! I know I can count on you to know something about any issue That sounds like a legal loophole to me...ha! But no, not intending to do that!

[sinikala]

Being allowed to reclaim travel expenses if you work away from home in the circumstances that (i) you rent your main place of residence and (ii) you don't have kids.

Thanks sinikala! So you're saying that a legally married spouse can claim travel expenses (as a form of tax deduction, I suppose?) IF the residence is rented and there're no kids? How does one do that in practical terms? and what kind of travel expenses do you mean? Tram & bus fares, airfare back to the spouse's home country (assuming he/she's not Finnish)?

And are there any websites on this?

... if the mom claims the father is unknown the county has to pay the child support

Thanks Hank! I know I can count on you to know something about any issue That sounds like a legal loophole to me...ha! But no, not intending to do that!

Yeah it's a tax deduction matter.

My SO and I lived together in Hki, I got a job in Pori 240km away, so not possible to commute daily. So I rented a small 1 room apartment for use 4 nights of the week and commuted on Mon & Fri.

I think (and of course I am not a tax expert, so may be wrong!!) that had we been married OR had children OR owned the Helsinki apartment, I could have ofset the Helsinki-Pori travel expenses against tax. I understand that I could not get a rebate for just going home to my SO for the weekend.

I know one of our students has a very long commute, her tax percentage for this year is 1%, but I think she is married.