Finance Act 1977

3Where in any year of assessment—

(a)the duties of an employment are performed wholly outside the United Kingdom ; and

(b)the employment is with a person, body of persons or partnership resident outside, and not resident in, the United Kingdom,

then, in charging tax under Case I of Schedule E on the amount of the emoluments from the employment for that year, there shall be allowed a deduction equal to one-quarter of that amount.