Under 3 months, you owe nothing to the locals.
Greater than 3 months, but under 183 days, you're only taxable on your income earned in the foreign country - ie; just your salary.
So if you want to avoid paying the foreign country anything, don't pay yourself a salary during that period; just dividends.
After the 183 days, your world-wide income becomes taxable, and so then that includes those dividends.
However, realistically you are not going to be challenged on anything up to 6 months (as the authorities have bigger fish to fry, assuming they even know about you), and you can even get away with a year, since no tax returns are even due until the following year by which time you can be long gone.
Just keep your mouth shut.
If you go on year after year, you need to register your UK company in the foreign country and start paying local taxes. That's when you must go see a local accountant (who will probably charge you twice as much as a UK accountant, for doing half as much work -- And you still need your UK accountant too so expect your accountancy bill to more than double in the latter years! Hardly fair, but then no-one cares about us).
Greater than 3 months, but under 183 days, you're only taxable on your income earned in the foreign country - ie; just your salary.
So if you want to avoid paying the foreign country anything, don't pay yourself a salary during that period; just dividends.
After the 183 days, your world-wide income becomes taxable, and so then that includes those dividends.
However, realistically you are not going to be challenged on anything up to 6 months (as the authorities have bigger fish to fry, assuming they even know about you), and you can even get away with a year, since no tax returns are even due until the following year by which time you can be long gone.
Just keep your mouth shut.
If you go on year after year, you need to register your UK company in the foreign country and start paying local taxes. That's when you must go see a local accountant (who will probably charge you twice as much as a UK accountant, for doing half as much work -- And you still need your UK accountant too so expect your accountancy bill to more than double in the latter years! Hardly fair, but then no-one cares about us).
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