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Moving to the UK? Get your first year right
End-to-end tax support for people and families relocating to the UK, covering residency, timing, and the four-year window on foreign income and gains.
The Short Answer
Moving to the UK usually makes you UK tax resident, which can bring your worldwide income and gains within the UK tax net. But new arrivers often pay tax only from their date of arrival, and many qualify for a four-year exemption on foreign income and gains.
The detail decides how much you pay, and getting your first year wrong is the most expensive mistake most arrivers make.
Arrive after ten straight years outside UK residence and the FIG regime can shelter your overseas income and gains completely for your first four UK tax years, the successor to the non-dom remittance basis from April 2025. The arrival year is where that planning happens, and it cannot be done retrospectively.
What Usually Needs Solving
The points that decide what you pay
Becoming UK resident
The Statutory Residence Test decides, for each UK tax year, whether you are a UK tax resident or not, based on your days, ties and work pattern.
Split-year treatment
Limits what is taxed in your arrival year, so you are not treated as UK resident for the whole tax year you arrive in.
The FIG window
Four years of relief on qualifying foreign income and gains, with a real cost to claiming: you give up your Personal Allowance and your Capital Gains Tax annual exempt amount.
Americans arriving
The US taxes its citizens and green-card holders on worldwide income wherever they live, so you file in both places and the treaty keeps the two systems from doubling up.
Inheritance tax
Under the residence-based rules from April 2025, becoming a long-term UK resident brings your worldwide estate within UK inheritance tax.
Free In-Depth Guides
Read the guides first, if you like
Moving to the UK
Moving to the UK: a tax guide for new arrivers
Moving to the UK usually makes you UK tax resident, but new arrivers often pay tax only from their arrival date, and many qualify for a four-year exemption on foreign income and gains.
12 min read · Reviewed July 2026
Non-Doms & Inbound
The 4-Year FIG Regime: Tax Relief for New UK Residents
The four-year FIG regime gives qualifying new UK residents full relief on foreign income and gains for their first four years, with no remittance trap. This guide covers who qualifies and what a claim really costs.
9 min read · Reviewed July 2026
Non-Doms & Inbound
Temporary Repatriation Facility (TRF): The Full Guide
How the Temporary Repatriation Facility works in 2026/27: bring foreign income and gains from before 6 April 2025 to the UK at 12%, before it rises to 15%.
9 min read · Reviewed July 2026
US-UK Tax
Americans Living in the UK: Tax Explained
Americans living in the UK tax guide: how the US and UK both tax you, dual filing, treaty relief, FBAR and FATCA reporting and the traps to avoid.
12 min read · Reviewed June 2026
Non-Doms & Inbound
Moving to the UK from the Gulf: a tax guide for HNWs
Moving to the UK from Dubai tax guide for 2026/27: the 4 year FIG regime, pre arrival planning and residence based IHT for HNWs and returning Brits.
9 min read · Reviewed July 2026
Moving to the UK
Moving to the UK from Australia: the 2026 tax guide
Moving to the UK from Australia?
9 min read · Reviewed July 2026
Moving to the UK
Moving to the UK from Canada: the 2026 tax guide
Moving to the UK from Canada?
7 min read · Reviewed July 2026
Non-Doms & Inbound
Residence-Based Inheritance Tax: The New UK Rules
Residence-based inheritance tax explained: the 10 in 20 year long-term resident test from 6 April 2025, worldwide scope, the leaver tail and how to plan.
8 min read · Reviewed July 2026
Free Tax Tools
Run your own numbers, before we speak
FIG Regime Eligibility Checker (4-Year Foreign Income & Gains)
Free tool: check whether you qualify for the UK 4-year FIG (Foreign Income and Gains) regime that replaced the non-dom rules, and how many of your four relief years remain. 2026/27.
Try it freeUK Statutory Residence Test Calculator
Free UK Statutory Residence Test calculator. Enter your UK days, work pattern and ties for an instant indication of whether you are UK resident, with the deciding test and full reasoning.
Try it freeGlobal Tax Atlas
Compare the UK tax system with anywhere you might move. Pick a destination for an instant, plain-English read on income tax, capital gains, wealth and inheritance taxes, the basis of taxation, special regimes and the UK treaty position.
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We confirm your fee in writing before any work begins. You always know exactly what you are paying, billed as a fixed amount, never in arrears by the hour.
What it costs
Premium non-resident and expat tax returns are £550, handling cross-border taxation, multi-country income, and UK residency under the Statutory Residence Test. Advisory and project work, such as international tax planning and residency planning, is quoted as a fixed fee agreed upfront, scoped to your situation.
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