Tax advice - UK and Jersey

[Manners14]

Hi all,

My partner is looking for some advice but there is nothing that we can find on gov websites.

Her family moved over to Jersey a few years ago which has a number of ridiculous rules for people working and living over there. We met a few years back and she now spends half the year over here in the UK with me and half over there where she runs a seasonal business.

She earns money through this business which she pays tax on over there through their systems and lives with her parents.

She now wants to work over here for the time she is here but doesn't know whether to put down that she lives here and do the tax through the UK systems, or to put down she lives in Jersey and do it through there's.

There seems to be no guidance so she's a bit lost of what to do...

Any experience would be a massive help!

 

[Lopéz]

I appreciate this might not be the advice you want to hear, but you should contact a tax advisor. You could either go with a small independent, or one of the big organisations like PWC.

What will drive a lot of this is establishing where she is resident for tax purposes (and she could easily find herself as a tax resident both in Jersey and the UK)

 

[john_s]

There is information out there... Google will turn it up eventually if you keep digging.

Gut feeling suggests that being tax resident in Jersey would be more tax efficient than the UK (I don’t know the tax situation in Jersey, but it is for Guernsey).

If she does want to keep her tax residency outside the UK, she will have a limit on the number of number of days (well technically it’s where you are at midnight that counts) that she can spend in the UK. I’m not sure what the number is, but it can vary with things such as ties to the UK and how long you have not been resident. (Are you married, does she own property in the uk, etc, might all matter).

When I first moved to Guernsey, my wife initially remained in the UK, and I had to be very careful not to spend too long in the UK visiting, as I’d have ended up falling back into the UK tax system, even though my employment was (and my income taxed) in Guernsey.