Every Commonwealth citizen or citizen of the Republic of Ireland—
shall, if his ordinary residence has been in the United Kingdom, be assessed and charged to income tax notwithstanding that at the time the assessment or charge is made he may have left the United Kingdom, if he has so left the United Kingdom for the purpose only of occasional residence abroad, and
shall be charged as a person actually residing in the United Kingdom upon the whole amount of his profits or gains, whether they arise from property in the United Kingdom or elsewhere, or from any allowance, annuity or stipend, or from any trade, profession, employment or vocation in the United Kingdom or elsewhere.
M1(1)Where—
(a)a person works full-time in one or more of the following, that is to say, a trade, profession, vocation, office or employment; and
(b)no part of the trade, profession or vocation is carried on in the United Kingdom and all the duties of the office or employment are performed outside the United Kingdom;
the question whether he is resident in the United Kingdom shall be decided without regard to any place of abode maintained in the United Kingdom for his use.
(2)Where an office or employment is in substance one of which the duties fall in the year of assessment to be performed outside the United Kingdom there shall be treated for the purposes of this section as so performed any duties performed in the United Kingdom the performance of which is merely incidental to the performance of the other duties outside the United Kingdom.
Marginal Citations
M1Source-1970 s.50
M2(1)A person shall not be charged to income tax under Schedule D as a person residing in the United Kingdom, in respect of profits or gains received in respect of possessions or securities out of the United Kingdom, if—
(a)he is in the United Kingdom for some temporary purpose only and not with any view or intent of establishing his residence there, and
(b)he has not actually resided in the United Kingdom at one time or several times for a period equal in the whole to six months in any year of assessment,
but if any such person resides in the United Kingdom for such a period he shall be so chargeable for that year.
(2)For the purposes of Cases I, II and III of Schedule E, a person who is in the United Kingdom for some temporary purpose only and not with the intention of establishing his residence there shall not be treated as resident in the United Kingdom if he has not in the aggregate spent at least six months in the United Kingdom in the year of assessment, but shall be treated as resident there if he has.
[F1(3)The question whether—
(a)a person falls within subsection (1)(a) above, or
(b)for the purposes of subsection (2) above a person is in the United Kingdom for some temporary purpose only and not with the intention of establishing his residence there,
shall be decided without regard to any living accommodation available in the United Kingdom for his use.]
Textual Amendments
F1S. 336(3) inserted (27.7.1993 with effect for the year 1993-94 and subsequent years of assessment) by 1993 c. 34, s. 208(1)(4)
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C1 See 1979(C) s.18(3)—corresponding provision for capital gains.
Marginal Citations
M2Source-1970 s.51