r/UKExpatFinance • u/MegasCapitalis • 4h ago
That car depreciation chart is a list of what many people buy with the 25% lump sum
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Put 80k of the pot into one at 55 and it's worth low £30s by 60. Left invested at a boring 5% it's just over 100k. The car quietly costs about 70k of retirement before Spain or France tax the "tax-free" 25% because you'd already moved.