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Privateer · Joined: 21 Nov 2013 Posts: 1

I'm considering work in Saudi Arabia and wondering if you have to pay tax on your income there when you transfer it to a UK bank account. Can anyone out there tell me?

trapezius · Posted: Tue Nov 26, 2013 5:53 am Post subject:

Your government's website can. Which you can find using google.

sicklyman · Joined: 02 Feb 2013 Posts: 930

it's complicated and if your situation is not usual then you should consult a tax advisor.

Basically, and you are not allowed to quote me on this in court Wink

, if you leave the UK on a full-time contract that is a year or more in duration and remain overseas until a full tax year has elapsed, you will be regarded as non-resident for tax purposes. That's provided you spend no more than 90 days in the UK during any year you earn income in.

During that time, you can repatriate as much money as you want without paying tax on it.

If you return to the UK to reside during that period, you will be liable for tax on any income you have earned here while you have been overseas.

So, if you arrive here now, you will have to remain here until April 2015 for you to be non-resident for tax purposes. At that point and any time after it provided your circumstances remain the same, you can return to the UK for residency with no tax liabilities.

If I'm wrong on any of this, someone please tell me.

psychedelicacy · Joined: 05 Oct 2013 Posts: 180 Location: Beijing

If you work in Country X under a full-time contract of employment, this income is subject to taxation in X. However, since Saudi Arabia has no income tax, no tax is payable on this income. Only people who work abroad full time but still have a UK income (rent from property, for example) have to worry about UK taxes.

Fill in a P85 and declare yourself non-resident from the day you leave the UK.

PC Parrot · Posted: Wed Nov 27, 2013 3:50 am Post subject:

sicklyman · Joined: 02 Feb 2013 Posts: 930

good links. Your second one seems to contradict you though as it says

1.27 You spend a sufficient amount of time in a UK home if, during the tax year, you are present in that home on at least 30 days.

not saying you're wrong, just wondering why your figure differs.

PC Parrot · Posted: Thu Nov 28, 2013 3:55 am Post subject:

Wrong about which part?

If you mean about the home, have you read page 6 of the pdf and followed through steps 1 to 4?

My 24 days was pulled out of a hat. It was my understanding when I went through this document in it's bill-phase over a year ago that anyone with a home occupied by wife & kids (under eighteen) will be classed as a UK resident irrespective of the number of days they do or do not spend in the UK.

Perhaps my memory is at fault. Read the stuff and let us know.

scot47 · Joined: 10 Jan 2003 Posts: 15343

Tax the buggers ! That is what I say !