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STOP PRESS: At Spring Budget 2024, the Chancellor announced that the remittance basis would be abolished from 6 April 2025, although this only applies to foreign income and gains arising on or after that date. The remittance basis rules still apply to unremitted income and gains arising before that date but remitted later. For more details, see the Abolition of the remittance basis from 2025/26 guidance note.

As part of the changes introduced by FA 2019, Sch 1, TCGA 1992, Part 1 was rewritten. The new TCGA 1992, Part 1 largely restates the existing law but also includes additional provisions to bring disposals by non-UK residents of UK land from 6 April 2019 within the charge to tax. The rewrite was intended to modernise and simplify the structure of the UK capital gains rules as well as to accommodate the rules on disposals of interests in assets relating to UK land by non-UK residents. Where the legislation has been restated, the legislative links to the previous law shown in this guidance