Returning to the UK after redundancy abroad and HMRC6

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Damned confusing isn't it!

I really wish the UK tax authorities would adopt the simple policy of countries like Egypt, China, The Phillipines, India, Pakistan and many others.

This policy states that if you work wholly outside your country of residence/domicile then you are allowed 180 days per year maximum within that country and be exept from that countries income taxes.

This means that all these people working overseas send ALL their income back to their home countries (without fear of personal taxation) where local and national economies all benefit and the tax authorities get their cut through various forms of VAT imposed on purchases made.

This is quite unlike the UK of course where anyone actually, deemed or implied non-resident usually keeps their money overseas away from UK in foreign bank accounts or other establishments overseas. The UK benefits not one jot from probably billions of pounds. Then when someone comes back from overseas they have to fight tooth and nail to keep what is rightfully there's because of poor legislation and non-existent rules and still keep the majority of their money overseas for fear of the Revenue getting their claws into it. Oh, and pay huge accountants bills too to get closure on their situation that the Revenue can interpret different ways with different results for 2 people with similar situations!

This is strangely short-sighted by the British authorities in my humble view.

And yes, I'm pretty upset and angry and worried about the current lack of clarity. You guessed then!