Tax Returns for non residents

Tax Returns for non residents

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Hello all

We have a UK national client, an energy expert. We prepare his UK self assessment Tax Returns only.

Currently he spends only about 20 days p.a. in the UK, his family home is in Holland (wife and child live there) but he also travels for many months all over the globe. He is employed by a Russian oil company and paid in Russia.

This has been his geographical situation for many years.

His only UK-source income originates from a few small UK pensions including the state pension totaling less than the personal allowance. The state pension started in October 2014.

Query - is he required to declare the UK state pension in his 2014/15 UK self assessment Tax Return or does he ignore it as “excluded income” leaving it to be taxed elsewhere in the world?

We think we exclude it but he is receiving "advice" from others that he will need to declare it on his UK Returns and pay tax on it here.

What say you?

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By Tim Vane
31st Jan 2015 16:00

You must enter the pension or the return won't be complete. The computation will exclude it automatically if it needs to be excluded.

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By taxinfo
31st Jan 2015 17:50

Thanks Tim.

Yes, I've been experimenting with the software this afternoon and that's exactly what it does so all is well.

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