UK Expat Tax Advice

International Tax Service

Understanding and minimising your tax liabilities is vital to maintaining your wealth. Not fully understanding the tax position on your income and assets in another country often leads to the payment of unnecessary taxes and in some cases you may be taxed twice.  With the right international tax advice you can make sure that you understand the local tax implications and are able to minimise your tax liabilities both in the UK and overseas.

The Forth Capital international tax service provides high quality cross-border international tax advice for UK expatriates moving overseas, living overseas or purchasing property overseas.

We can assist you if you are currently:

Living in the UK and planning to move overseas
Living outside the UK and planning to return to the UK
Living outside the UK and planning to move to France, Spain or Portugal
Living in the UK and looking to purchase property overseas
Living outside the UK whilst retaining UK interests

Areas we specialize in:

Residence planning 
The optimum time to leave or return to the UK, application of the UK’s Statutory Residence Test, overseas residence rules.

Income tax planning 
Tax treatment of UK source income when living overseas, including tax efficient remuneration, the tax treatment of share options, and tax efficient extraction of profits.

Taxation of rental income
The UK’s Non-Resident Landlord Scheme, taxation of overseas rental income, allowable expenses, and the different overseas regimes where applicable.

Capital gains tax planning
The optimum time to sell UK and overseas assets to mitigate UK tax liabilities, including advice on the reliefs and deductions available. This includes the tax efficient sale of property investments, businesses and business assets, the main home and second homes.  Both UK and overseas tax mitigation is considered where relevant.

Property taxation
All aspects of taxation in relation to the main home, second homes and/or investment properties.

Tax efficient investments 
The options available and how restructuring may help to reduce both UK and overseas taxes.

The impact of double tax treaties and social security agreements  
Where liabilities will arise, the availability and mechanics of double tax reliefs.

Inheritance tax planning
Advice covers both the UK and overseas positions, where liabilities will arise, ways to legitimately reduce liabilities, including optimum timing of gifts.

Domicile planning
The tax impact of your domicile status, and steps to take to acquire an overseas domicile.

If you are planning a move to France, Spain, Portugal or Cyprus, or you are already resident in one of those countries, we can provide both UK tax advice and overseas tax advice for the country in question. The overseas advice will also incorporate specific tax issues that are relevant to that particular country, such as advice on wealth tax for France and Spain, succession tax and succession laws in both France and Spain; the non-habitual residence regime in Portugal; the taxation of trusts in all the above countries; and practical issues in relation to moving overseas such as advice on Wills, the overseas health systems, pets, driving licences etc.

If are considering moving back to the UK, we can provide advice on all of the above areas to ensure that your move back to the UK is as tax efficient as possible.

Why Forth Capital for International Tax Advice?

Many advisers operate in one jurisdiction only, and so tax advice can be ‘one-dimensional’ in that it is restricted to one jurisdiction.  The danger of this is that the planning may not work in the other country, or could even result in higher taxes in that country. With our in-depth knowledge of the tax systems in the UK, France, Spain, Portugal and Cyprus, we can ensure that our advice dovetails so that the planning recommendations are effective in both countries.

If you are considering moving to a jurisdiction other than one mentioned above, the tax advice provided by Forth Capital will focus on mitigation of UK taxes, and consideration of any double tax treaty with your intended country of residence.  We have a network of overseas advisers who can provide advice on the overseas position, and we will work together with the overseas adviser to ensure that their recommendations are also effective from a UK point of view and do not create any adverse tax liabilities in the UK.

Our Advisory Reports

Everyone’s circumstances are different and there is no ‘one size fits all’ solution.  Our advisory service offers bespoke tax planning, and our advisory reports are tailored to your specific circumstances, setting out the tax issues facing you, your options and recommended solutions.

Forth Capital Tax Advisers

Forth Capital Tax Advisers Ltd is part of Forth Capital Group, a privately owned, Financial Advisory Company with offices in Geneva, Hong Kong, Dubai, London and Dublin.

Our international tax advice team are fully qualified members of the Chartered Institute of Taxation (CIOT), and have specific expertise in cross-border taxation, with over 15 years of experience advising on all aspects of expatriate taxation, and over 12 years of advising on taxation in France, Spain, Portugal and Cyprus.