Statutory Residence Test - HM Revenue & Customs
Statutory Residence Test - HM Revenue & Customs
Statutory Residence Test - HM Revenue & Customs
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Table of Contents<br />
Introduction...............................................................................................6<br />
How to navigate between links in this document ......................................6<br />
RDR3 updates December 2013................................................................7<br />
1. <strong>Statutory</strong> residence test - the basic rule ..............................................8<br />
Automatic overseas tests..........................................................................9<br />
First automatic overseas test....................................................................9<br />
Second automatic overseas test.............................................................10<br />
Third automatic overseas test.................................................................10<br />
Do you work full-time overseas?.............................................................10<br />
Gaps between employments ..................................................................11<br />
What other days can reduce the reference period?................................12<br />
Annual leave and parenting leave...........................................................13<br />
What are reasonable amounts of leave? ................................................13<br />
What is a non-working day embedded within a block of leave?..............13<br />
Automatic UK tests ..................................................................................17<br />
First automatic UK test ...........................................................................17<br />
Second automatic UK test ......................................................................18<br />
What is a sufficient amount of time? .......................................................18<br />
What is a permitted amount of time? ......................................................18<br />
Third automatic UK test ..........................................................................23<br />
Do you work full-time in the UK?.............................................................27<br />
Sufficient ties test....................................................................................28<br />
Number of UK ties ..................................................................................28<br />
2. Definition of UK ties .............................................................................30<br />
A family tie ..............................................................................................30<br />
How is time spent in the UK by children in full-time education dealt with<br />
for the family tie? ....................................................................................30<br />
Accommodation tie .................................................................................31<br />
Work tie ..................................................................................................32<br />
90-day tie................................................................................................32<br />
Country tie ..............................................................................................32<br />
3. Days spent in the UK............................................................................33<br />
What do we mean by a day spent in the UK?.........................................33<br />
The deeming rule....................................................................................33<br />
Transit days ............................................................................................35<br />
Work .......................................................................................................37<br />
What activities does ‘work’ cover? ..........................................................37<br />
What else is counted as time spent working?.........................................37<br />
Number of hours worked in a day ...........................................................37<br />
Travel to or from a temporary workplace whilst working full-time overseas<br />
................................................................................................................38<br />
What is a significant break from overseas work/work in the UK?............39<br />
Location of work......................................................................................40<br />
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