Reply to: Here we go, it's no good leaving the UK...

[AtW]

All business rates and taxes are in order.

I am not checking if your payments are in order, I am just saying it takes so bloody much time to deal with them - I want to bloody pay tax and it's ******** impossible to get live person on business rates phone line. I mean WTF, any sales related line should respond straight away - councils should not be collecting the money.

[Mich the Tester]

It's much worse - have you tried to pay business rates and make amendments to situation?

All business rates and taxes are in order.

[Incognito]

Agreed. I think the whole thing is a bit harsh, he met the residency rules as far as they were written, and ATW is talking out of his rear...

Actually he didn't. As the Appeal Court says the 91 day rule is:

important only to establish whether non-resident status, once acquired, has been lost

I suggest you try and read into the case.

They decided that he had never cut his ties with Berkshire where he had grown up, or with Oxfordshire, where he still owns a mansion on a 27-acre estate near Henley and which the judges said was still his chief residence.

They're suggesting he didn't really cut his ties with the UK, so rather than emigrate he just hopped about for a bit.

[Tarquin Farquhar]

What about council tax?

The principle is general: you do not need to tell them where you are going just because you are going there, but particular actions or circumstances may require that you do. For example if you have a UK driving licence then it must be up to date with an address in the UK at which you can always be contacted.

[AtW]

That's not HMRC.

It's much worse - have you tried to pay business rates and make amendments to situation?

[Mich the Tester]

What about council tax?

I told the council I'd left and signed into the council in Holland. That's not HMRC.

[AtW]

As I understood it there was never an obligation to inform the British authorities of my whereabouts.

What about council tax?

[Moscow Mule]

As I understood it there was never an obligation to inform the British authorities of my whereabouts unless I am suspected of a crime. I am, after all, a British citizen, which used to mean I am a free man.

This may seem like a fine point, but AFAIK you are not obliged to tell anyone because you are leaving the country, but you do have to provide information if you are claiming not to be liable for UK tax any more.

Indeed, you are free to do as you wish. If you want to leave the country and stop paying tax, tell the tax man otherwise he might not agree you left in 33 years time.

[DimPrawn]

That's a dancing banana, not a f**king banana.

http://ct3.pbase.com/o6/61/114161/1/...ananadoggy.gif

[Xenophon]

if you think I'm putting that in my mouth ...

That's what she said.

[Mich the Tester]

Here, have a f**king banana.

That's a dancing banana, not a f**king banana.

[Tarquin Farquhar]

Here, have a f**king banana.

if you think I'm putting that in my mouth ...

[Tarquin Farquhar]

As I understood it there was never an obligation to inform the British authorities of my whereabouts unless I am suspected of a crime. I am, after all, a British citizen, which used to mean I am a free man.

This may seem like a fine point, but AFAIK you are not obliged to tell anyone because you are leaving the country, but you do have to provide information if you are claiming not to be liable for UK tax any more.

[DimPrawn]

Sounds like a f**king banana republic to me.

Here, have a f**king banana.

[Mich the Tester]

There's a form you can fill in to tell them you're leaving.

http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/incometax/tax-leave-uk.htm

I'm pretty sure that form didn't exist in 1976 though...

As I understood it there was never an obligation to inform the British authorities of my whereabouts unless I am suspected of a crime. I am, after all, a British citizen, which used to mean I am a free man.