Residence ― overview

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Personal Tax

Guidance

STOP PRESS: The remittance basis is to 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. The legislation is included in Finance Bill 2025. For more details, see the Abolition of the remittance basis from 2025/26 guidance note.

Introduction

Residence is an important tax concept as it determines whether an individual is liable to UK income tax, capital gains tax and inheritance tax. Residence must be decided on a year-by-year basis.

Until 2013/14, the statutory definition of residence was very brief. In order to determine someone’s residence status it was necessary to consult the extensive case law on the subject and heavy reliance was placed on guidance published by HMRC. Although the individual is entitled to rely on the HMRC guidance if they fall clearly within it, several cases (most notably the Gaines-Cooper case), highlighted the short-comings of this guidance and left some individuals in an uncertain

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