Expats Must Go To Increasing Lengths To Escape UK Tax Net

With HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) using an ever-broadening test to establish whether someone is resident in the UK for tax purposes, British expats are having to go to greater lengths to sever their ties with the land of their birth. HMRC’s recently rewritten guidance on these matters - booklet HMRC 6 – explicitly emphasises the broader criteria employed in HMRC’s investigations of residence status. What’s more, you have to do much more than merely count the days that you spend in and out of the UK every year to qualify as a true non-resident, as evidenced by the long-running Gaines-Cooper legal case. “It is all too common for people to go to live abroad only to find out later that they have not in

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