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Overseas individuals & expats

Who would find this service useful?

  • individuals coming to or leaving the UK to work
  • individuals seeking to repatriate for retirement or tax purposes
  • employers seeking to provide high quality advice to internationally mobile executives and their families
  • partners in international partnerships

We provide advice on the income tax, capital gains tax and inheritance tax consequences of coming to and leaving the UK for the short and the long term and establishing your residence and domicile position with HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC).  

What tax services we can offer our clients

Individuals coming to the United Kingdom

  • if you are coming to the UK to work for a temporary period, we can advise on the potential UK tax reliefs which are available to minimise your tax liability and liaise with your employer to ensure that your employment qualifies for these reliefs, including checking the contract of employment
  • advice on tax efficient structures for owning UK properties
  • inheritance tax planning for overseas individuals who have been in the UK for several years or who have settled in the UK permanently
  • advice on the set up of tax efficient offshore structures, such as trusts and companies to protect offshore assets from UK tax. See also International Services
  • tax efficient structuring of remittances to enable tax efficient movement of capital to the UK
  • tax filing

Individuals leaving the United Kingdom

  • advice on the destination country’s tax legislation and how this interacts with UK tax legislation
  • tax planning to maximise the tax benefit of periods of non-UK residence
  • advice on letting your UK property whilst you are outside of the UK, including HMRC’s non-resident landlord scheme
  • advice with regard to ongoing UK tax and NIC obligations for those leaving the UK to work
  • tax filing

FAQs

For more information about domicile and the remittance basis visit our FAQs on the right hand side of this page.

Contact us 

If you would like to discuss any of the above, please contact:

email: Nick Osler
tel: 020 7131 4257

email: Angela Kellock
tel: 020 7131 4385

email: Ian Grant
tel: 020 7131 4355

email: Mark McMullen
tel: 020 7131 8108