Can anyone help? My husband and i live with our daughter in Spain- we have been here for over 2 years. We have a business partnership in the UK and are both self employed with our only income being from the UK. We travel to and from UK regularly to work but also work alot from home.

We are currently paying income tax and NI in the UK because that was what we were advised but now have been told that we ought to be paying social security in Spain. We are happy to do this but it seems that we each would be paying 200 or more every month because the spanish system is expensive for self employed people. We have worked out that it is cheaper to pay for private healthcare insurance.

What we want to know is;
1. Would we both have to pay social security?
2. If we opted to go private, can we still pay into the UK pension scheme?

Any advice appreciated - many thanks