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<big>[https://www.kessler.co.uk James Kessler's] ''Private Client Taxation'' aims to set out a comprehensive discussion of private client taxation.  Discussion includes:
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# Taxation of foreign domiciliaries
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# Income Tax, CGT and IHT on individuals and trusts
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# Taxation of non-residents on UK income and assets
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# The territorial limits of UK tax (now based on residence, situs and source)
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# Taxation of UK residents on foreign income and assets
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# Other topics arising in this context, including tax avoidance, disclosure and compliance
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# Other topics arising in this context, including tax avoidance, and disclosure and compliance
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It is the online version of [https://www.kessler.co.uk/taxation-of-foreign-domiciliaries/ ''Taxation of Non-Residents and Foreign Domiciliaries''] by [https://www.kessler.co.uk James Kessler KC].   
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This is a wide subject, or set of subjects, but in taxation, as in life, everything is connected.
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''PCT Online'' is the successor to ''Taxation of Non-Residents and Foreign Domiciliaries''. The reforms of the FA 2025, which one might summarise as the abolition of domicile, required a new title.  But the approach of this work is unaltered.
  
 
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<span style="color:#800000">''Non-dom Policy & Avoidance:''</span>
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:'''''<span style="font-size:87%">Mobile Individuals Policy & Avoidance</span>'''''
  
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:1  [[Foreign Domicile: Tax Policy]]
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:1  [[Mobile Individuals: Tax Policy]]
  
 
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:3  [[Targeted Anti-Avoidance Rules (TAARs)]]
 
:3  [[Targeted Anti-Avoidance Rules (TAARs)]]
  
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<span style="color:#800000">'''''Domicile & Residence:'''''</span>
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:'''''<span style="font-size:87%">Residence</span>'''''
  
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:5  [[Residence of Trustees]]
  
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:6  [[Residence of Companies]]
  
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:8  [[Split Years]]
  
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:9  [[Temporary Non-residence]]
  
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:10   [[Split Years]]
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:10 [[Exit Taxes]]
  
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:11  [[UK Arrival or Departure: Tax Checklist]]
  
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:'''''<span style="font-size:87%">Income Tax: Principles</span>'''''
  
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<span style="color:#800000">''Income Tax: Principles & Remittance Basis:''</span>
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:13  [[Source/Territorial Principles]]
  
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:'''''<span style="font-size:87%">FIG Relief: TRF & Former Remittance Basis</span>'''''
  
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:16  [[Temporary Repatriation Facility]]
  
 
:17  [[The Remittance Basis]]
 
:17  [[The Remittance Basis]]
  
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:18  [[The Meaning of Remittance]]
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:'''''<span style="font-size:87%">Income by Category</span>'''''
  
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:20  [[Trading Income]]
  
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:21 [[Cessations & Trading Stock]]
  
 
:22  [[Trading in Land]]
 
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:30  [[Dividend Income]]
 
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:31  [[Corporation Tax on Company Distributions]]  
  
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:32  [[Intellectual Property Income]]
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:32  [[Annual Payments]]
  
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:33  [[Misc Sweep-Up Income]]
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:33  [[Intellectual Property Income]]
  
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:34  [[Employment Income]]
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:34  [[Misc Sweep-Up Income]]
  
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:35  [[Travel Expenses: Employment Income]]
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:36 [[PAYE]]
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:35 [[Employment Income]]
  
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:37 [[Employment Income: DT Relief]]
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:37 [[PAYE]]
  
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:38 [[Disguised Remuneration/Trading Income]]
  
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:39 [[Employment Income: DT Relief]]
  
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:40  [[Benefit in Kind: Family Home and Chattels]]
  
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:41  [[Discretionary Trusts: Income Tax]]
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:41  [[Loans from Companies]]
  
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:42  [[IIP Trusts: Income Tax]]
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:43 [[Rates of Income Tax/CGT]]
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:42 [[Discretionary Trusts: Income Tax]]
  
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:44 [[Personal Allowances]]
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:43 [[IIP Trusts: Income Tax]]
  
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:45 [[Non-Residents Income Tax Relief]]
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:44 [[Rates of Income Tax/CGT/CT]]
  
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:46 [[National Insurance Contributions]]
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:45 [[Personal Allowances]]
  
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:46  [[Non-Resident Income Tax Relief]]
  
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:47  [[Settlor-interested Trust Code]]
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:47  [[National Insurance Contributions]]
  
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:48  [[Transfer of Assets Abroad: Introduction]]
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:49 [[Transfer of Assets Abroad: Transferors]]
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:48 [[Settlor-interested Trust Code]]
  
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:50 [[Transfer of Assets Abroad: Benefits]]
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:49 [[Transfer of Assets Abroad: Introduction]]
  
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:51 [[Transfer of Assets Abroad: Relief from Overlapping Charges]]
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:51 [[Transfer of Assets Abroad: Benefits]]
  
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:53 [[Profit Fragmentation]]
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:52 [[Transfer of Assets Abroad: Relief from Overlapping Charges]]
  
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:54 [[Transfer of Income Streams]]
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:53 [[Transfer of Assets Abroad: Motive Defence]]
  
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:55 [[Transactions in Securities]]
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:54 [[Pre-2025 Protected Trust Income]]
  
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:55  [[Profit Fragmentation]]
  
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:56  [[Chargeable Gains]]
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:56  [[Transfer of Income Streams]]
  
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:57  [[UK Property Held by Non-Residents]]
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:57  [[Transactions in Securities]]
  
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:58 [[Reorganisations]]
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:'''''<span style="font-size:87%">Capital Gains Tax</span>'''''
  
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:59 [[Residential Property: CGT]]
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:58 [[Chargeable Gains]]
  
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:60 [[Gains of Non-Resident Settlor-Interested Trusts: s.86]]
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:59 [[UK Property Held by Non-Residents]]
  
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:61  [[Capital Payments from Non-Resident Trusts: s.87 Code]]
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:60 [[Hold-over Relief]]
  
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:61 [[Liquidation of Companies]]
  
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:64 [[Gains of Non-Resident Companies]]
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:65  [[Capital Payments from Non-Resident Trusts: s.87 Code]]
  
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:67  [[Income from Offshore Funds]]
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:68  [[Unit Trusts]]
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:'''''<span style="font-size:87%">Funds</span>'''''
  
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:71 [[Investment Manager Exemptions]]
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:72 [[Investment Management Fees & Carried Interest]]
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:72  [[Income from Offshore Funds]]
  
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:73  [[IHT Terms and Concepts]]
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:74  [[Excluded Property: Definition]]
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:75  [[Intermediated Securities]]
  
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:76  [[Wills and IOVs]]
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:77 [[Reservation of Benefit]]
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:78 [[Inter-Trust Transfers: IHT]]
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:77 [[Carried Interest/Investment Management Fees: Introduction]]
  
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:79 [[IHT Deduction for Debts]]
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:80 [[IHT Close-Company Code]]
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:81  [[IHT Residential Property Code]]
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:82 [[Pre-Owned Assets]]
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:80 [[IHT Terms and Concepts]]
  
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:83 [[Pension Schemes and IHT]]
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:81 [[Normal Expenditure Relief]]
  
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:82  [[Excluded Property: Definition]]
  
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:83 [[Excluded Property Exemptions]]
  
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:85 [[Partnership Income: Attribution]]
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:86 [[Settlement, Bare Trust, and Associated Terminology]]
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:85 [[Reservation of Benefit]]
  
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:87 [[Estates of Deceased Persons: CGT]]
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:86 [[Inter-Trust Transfers: IHT]]
  
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:88 [[Estates of Deceased Persons: Income Tax]]
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:87 [[IHT Treatment of Debts]]
  
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:89 [[Foreign Entities]]
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:88 [[IHT Close-Company Code]]
  
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:89 [[IHT Residential-Property Code]]
  
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:90  [[Pre-Owned Assets]]
  
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:'''''<span style="font-size:87%">Partnerships</span>'''''
  
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:92 [[Non-Dom/Non-Resident Spouse]]
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:94 [[Foreign Currency Issues]]
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:93 [[Salaried Members Code]]
  
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:96  [[Unremittable Assets]]
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:'''''<span style="font-size:87%">Entities</span>'''''
  
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:97 [[ATED and SDLT]]
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:98 [[Who is the Settlor?]]
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:99 [[Multiple Settlors]]
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:97 [[Estates of Deceased Persons: Income Tax]]
  
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:100 [[Statutory Tax Indemnities]]
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:98 [[Foreign Entities]]
  
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:101 [[Situs of Assets for IHT]]
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:99 [[Hybrid Entities]]
  
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:102 [[Situs of Assets for CGT]]
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:103 [[Control Connected Close and Related Expressions]]
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:100  [[Pension and Annuity Income]]
  
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:104 [[Participation & % Investment Tests]]
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:105 [[Permanent Establishment and Branch/Agency]]
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:102  [[Pension IHT]]
  
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:106 [[Double Taxation Arrangements: Introduction]]
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:103 [[Non-Resident Spouse]]
  
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:107 [[DTA Anti-abuse Rules]]
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:104 [[Joint Accounts]]
  
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:108 [[Limitation on Benefits]]
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:105 [[Foreign Currency Issues]]
  
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:109 [[Credit for Foreign Tax]]
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:106 [[Cryptoassets]]
  
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:110 [[Non-discrimination]]
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:107 [[Unremittable Assets]]
  
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<span style="color:#800000">''Double Taxation Agreements: IHT:''</span>
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:108 [[ATED and SDLT]]
  
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:111 [[IHT Double Taxation Treaties: Introduction]]
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:109 [[Who is the Settlor?]]
  
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:112 [[IHT DTAs: India, Pakistan, Italy, France]]
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:113 [[IHT DTA: Netherlands]]
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:111 [[Statutory Tax Indemnities]]
  
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:114 [[IHT DTA: South Africa]]
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:112 [[Situs of Assets for IHT]]
  
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:115 [[IHT DTA: Switzerland]]
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:113 [[Situs of Assets for CGT]]
  
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:116 [[IHT DTA: USA]]
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:114 [[Control Connected Close and Related Expressions]]
  
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:117 [[Credit for Foreign IHT]]
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:115 [[Participation, % Investment & Material Interest Tests]]
  
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:116 [[Permanent Establishment]]
  
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:119 [[Tax Return Filing Position]]
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:117 [[Double Taxation Arrangements: Introduction]]
  
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:120 [[Claims]]
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:118 [[DTA Anti-abuse Rules]]
  
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:121 [[Collection of Tax from UK Representatives]]
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:119 [[Third Party Relief/Savings Clause]]
  
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:122 [[Reporting and Compliance: IHT]]
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:120 [[Limitation on Benefits]]
  
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:123 [[Penalties]]
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:121[[Credit for Foreign Tax]]
  
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:124 [[Failure to Prevent Tax Evasion]]
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:122 [[Non-discrimination]]
  
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:125 [[Common Reporting Standard]]
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:123 [[Mutual Agreement Procedure]]
  
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:126 [[Trust Registration (TRS)]]
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:'''''<span style="font-size:87%">Double Taxation Agreements: IHT</span>'''''
  
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:127 [[Customer Due Diligence]]
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:124 [[IHT Double Taxation Treaties: Introduction]]
  
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:128 [[Reporting Offshore Trusts]]  
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:125 [[IHT DTAs: India, Pakistan, Italy, France]]
  
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:129 [[International Movement of Capital: Reports]]
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:126 [[IHT DTA: South Africa]]
  
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:130 [[Money Laundering: POCA]]
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:127 [[IHT DTA: USA]]
  
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:129 [[IHT DTA: Switzerland]]
  
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:130 [[Credit for Foreign IHT]]
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:131 [[Reporting and Compliance]]
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:132 [[Tax Return Filing Position]]
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:133 [[Claims]]
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:134 [[Collection of IT/CGT from UK Representatives]]
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:135 [[Collection of Tax Across Borders]]
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:136 [[Reporting and Compliance: IHT]]
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:137 [[Penalties]]
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:138 [[Failure to Prevent Tax Evasion]]
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:139 [[Reporting Offshore Trusts]]
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:140 [[International Movement of Capital: Reports]]
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:141 [[Common Reporting Standard]]
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:143 [[Customer Due Diligence]]
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:144 [[Money Laundering: POCA]]
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:'''<big>Appendices</big>'''
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:[[Appendix 1 Words of Dispute]]
 
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:[[Appendix 9 Construction of Tax Statutes]]
  
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:[[Appendix 18 How to Improve Private Client Taxation]]
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<big>'''2023/24 edition'''</big>
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<big>'''2026/27 edition'''</big>
  
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The 2023/24 edition of ''Taxation of Non-Residents and Foreign Domiciliaries'' is available online from 6th April, and will be published in paper form at the end of May.
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The 2026/27 edition of ''Kessler on Private Client Taxation'' is now online.  It has been substantially updated for the FA 2026 and other developments since last year, and online publication of chapters remaining to be updated will be phased in over the next few weeks.
  
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Latest revision as of 11:19, 20 April 2026

James Kessler's Private Client Taxation aims to set out a comprehensive discussion of private client taxation. Discussion includes:

  1. Income Tax, CGT and IHT on individuals and trusts
  2. The territorial limits of UK tax (now based on residence, situs and source)
  3. Other topics arising in this context, including tax avoidance, disclosure and compliance

This is a wide subject, or set of subjects, but in taxation, as in life, everything is connected.

PCT Online is the successor to Taxation of Non-Residents and Foreign Domiciliaries. The reforms of the FA 2025, which one might summarise as the abolition of domicile, required a new title. But the approach of this work is unaltered.

Contents

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Introduction
Dedication
Mobile Individuals Policy & Avoidance
1 Mobile Individuals: Tax Policy
2 Tax Avoidance
3 Targeted Anti-Avoidance Rules (TAARs)
Residence
4 Residence of Individuals
5 Residence of Trustees
6 Residence of Companies
7 Treaty-Residence
8 Split Years
9 Temporary Non-residence
10 Exit Taxes
11 UK Arrival or Departure: Tax Checklist
Income Tax: Principles
12 Income and its Categorisation
13 Source/Territorial Principles
14 Income Recognition: Receive/Entitled/Arise/Paid
FIG Relief: TRF & Former Remittance Basis
15 FIG Relief & Overseas Workday Relief
16 Temporary Repatriation Facility
17 The Remittance Basis
18 Remittance Reliefs
19 Mixed Funds
Income by Category
20 Trading Income
21 Cessations & Trading Stock
22 Trading in Land
23 Performers
24 Property Income
25 Deduction of interest from Property Income
26 Interest Income
27 Exempt Interest of Non-Residents
28 Accrued Income Profits
29 Deeply Discounted Securities
30 Dividend Income
31 Corporation Tax on Company Distributions
32 Annual Payments
33 Intellectual Property Income
34 Misc Sweep-Up Income
Employment Income
35 Employment Income
36 Travel Expenses
37 PAYE
38 Disguised Remuneration/Trading Income
39 Employment Income: DT Relief
40 Benefit in Kind: Family Home and Chattels
41 Loans from Companies
IT: General
42 Discretionary Trusts: Income Tax
43 IIP Trusts: Income Tax
44 Rates of Income Tax/CGT/CT
45 Personal Allowances
46 Non-Resident Income Tax Relief
47 National Insurance Contributions
IT Avoidance Codes
48 Settlor-interested Trust Code
49 Transfer of Assets Abroad: Introduction
50 Transfer of Assets Abroad: Transferors
51 Transfer of Assets Abroad: Benefits
52 Transfer of Assets Abroad: Relief from Overlapping Charges
53 Transfer of Assets Abroad: Motive Defence
54 Pre-2025 Protected Trust Income
55 Profit Fragmentation
56 Transfer of Income Streams
57 Transactions in Securities
Capital Gains Tax
58 Chargeable Gains
59 UK Property Held by Non-Residents
60 Hold-over Relief
61 Liquidation of Companies
62 Reorganisations
63 Residential Property: CGT
64 Gains of Non-Resident Settlor-Interested Trusts: s.86
65 Capital Payments from Non-Resident Trusts: s.87 Code
66 Borrowing by Non-Resident Trust: Sch 4B
67 Sub-Funds
68 Gains of Non-Resident Companies
69 Capital Losses
Funds
70 Funds: Terms & Concepts
71 Offshore Income Gains
72 Income from Offshore Funds
73 Unit Trusts & Transparent Funds
74 Life Policies and Contracts
75 Intermediated Securities
Investment Management
76 Investment Manager Exemptions
77 Carried Interest/Investment Management Fees: Introduction
78 Carried Interest
79 Investment Management Fees
Inheritance Tax
80 IHT Terms and Concepts
81 Normal Expenditure Relief
82 Excluded Property: Definition
83 Excluded Property Exemptions
84 Wills and IOVs
85 Reservation of Benefit
86 Inter-Trust Transfers: IHT
87 IHT Treatment of Debts
88 IHT Close-Company Code
89 IHT Residential-Property Code
90 Pre-Owned Assets
Partnerships
91 Partnerships
92 Partnership Income: Allocation
93 Salaried Members Code
94 Partnerships CGT
Entities
95 Settlement, Bare Trust, and Associated Terminology
96 Estates of Deceased Persons: CGT
97 Estates of Deceased Persons: Income Tax
98 Foreign Entities
99 Hybrid Entities
Pensions & Employment Benefit Trusts
100 Pension and Annuity Income
101 Employer-Financed Retirement Benefits Scheme
102 Pension IHT
Topics affecting more than one tax
103 Non-Resident Spouse
104 Joint Accounts
105 Foreign Currency Issues
106 Cryptoassets
107 Unremittable Assets
108 ATED and SDLT
109 Who is the Settlor?
110 Multiple Settlors
111 Statutory Tax Indemnities
112 Situs of Assets for IHT
113 Situs of Assets for CGT
114 Control Connected Close and Related Expressions
115 Participation, % Investment & Material Interest Tests
116 Permanent Establishment
Double Taxation Agreements: IT/CGT
117 Double Taxation Arrangements: Introduction
118 DTA Anti-abuse Rules
119 Third Party Relief/Savings Clause
120 Limitation on Benefits
121Credit for Foreign Tax
122 Non-discrimination
123 Mutual Agreement Procedure
Double Taxation Agreements: IHT
124 IHT Double Taxation Treaties: Introduction
125 IHT DTAs: India, Pakistan, Italy, France
126 IHT DTA: South Africa
127 IHT DTA: USA
128 IHT DTA: Netherlands
129 IHT DTA: Switzerland
130 Credit for Foreign IHT
Administration
131 Reporting and Compliance
132 Tax Return Filing Position
133 Claims
134 Collection of IT/CGT from UK Representatives
135 Collection of Tax Across Borders
136 Reporting and Compliance: IHT
137 Penalties
138 Failure to Prevent Tax Evasion
139 Reporting Offshore Trusts
140 International Movement of Capital: Reports
CRS & Money Laundering
141 Common Reporting Standard
142 Trust Registration (TRS)
143 Customer Due Diligence
144 Money Laundering: POCA


Appendices
Words & Concepts
Appendix 1 Words of Dispute
Appendix 2 Common Legal Expressions
Appendix 3 Family Terminology
Appendix 4 Share/Security Terminology
Appendix 5 Consideration, Arm's Length, Full Value
Appendix 6 Commercial/View to Profit
Appendix 7 Beneficial Ownership/Entitlement
Appendix 8 Domicile
Statutory Construction
Appendix 9 Construction of Tax Statutes
Appendix 10 Substance and Reality
Appendix 11 Deeming Provisions
Special Taxpayers
Appendix 12 Parliamentarians
Appendix 13 Visiting Forces
Appendix 14 Diplomats
Appendix 15 Sovereign Immunity
Appendix 16 Students and Teachers
Appendix 17 Continental Shelf
Tax Reform
Appendix 18 How to Improve Private Client Taxation
Appendix 19 Reform of Offshore Anti-Avoidance Law
Appendix 20 Citizenship-based Taxation
Appendix 21 The Wisdom of Parliament



2026/27 edition

The 2026/27 edition of Kessler on Private Client Taxation is now online. It has been substantially updated for the FA 2026 and other developments since last year, and online publication of chapters remaining to be updated will be phased in over the next few weeks.

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