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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 />

RDR3 2

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