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

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