Finance Act 2013

The automatic UK tests U.K.

6 U.K. There are 4 automatic UK tests.

7 U.K. The first automatic UK test is that P spends at least 183 days in the UK in year X.

8 (1) The second automatic UK test is that— U.K.

(a) P has a home in the UK during all or part of year X,

(b) that home is one where P spends a sufficient amount of time in year X, and

(c) there is at least one period of 91 (consecutive) days in respect of which the following conditions are met—

(i) the 91-day period in question occurs while P has that home,

(ii) at least 30 days of that 91-day period fall within year X, and

(iii) throughout that 91-day period, condition A or condition B is met or a combination of those conditions is met.

(2) Condition A is that P has no home overseas.

(3) Condition B is that—

(a) P has one or more homes overseas, but

(b) each of those homes is a home where P spends no more than a permitted amount of time in year X.

(4) In relation to a home of P's in the UK, P “spends a sufficient amount of time” there in year X if there are at least 30 days in year X when P is present there on that day for at least some of the time (no matter how short a time).

(5) In relation to a home of P's overseas, P “spends no more than a permitted amount of time” there in year X if there are fewer than 30 days in year X when P is present there on that day for at least some of the time (no matter how short a time).

(6) In sub-paragraphs (4) and (5)—

(a) a reference to 30 days is to 30 days in aggregate, whether the days are consecutive or intermittent, and

(b) a reference to P being present at the home is to P being present there at a time when it is a home of P's (so presence there on any other occasion, for example to look round the property with a view to buying it, is to be disregarded).

(7) Sub-paragraph (1)(c) is satisfied so long as there is a period of 91 days in respect of which the conditions described there are met, even if those conditions are in fact met for longer than that.

(8) If P has more than one home in the UK—

(a) each of those homes must be looked at separately to see if the second automatic UK test is met, and

(b) the second automatic UK test is then met so long as it is met in relation to at least one of those homes.

9 (1) The third automatic UK test is that— U.K.

(a) P works sufficient hours in the UK, as assessed over a period of 365 days,

(b) during that period, there are no significant breaks from UK work,

(c) all or part of that period falls within year X,

(d) more than 75% of the total number of days in the 365-day period on which P does more than 3 hours' work are days on which P does more than 3 hours' work in the UK, and

(e) at least one day which falls in both that period and year X is a day on which P does more than 3 hours' work in the UK.

(2) Take the following steps to work out, for any given period of 365 days, whether P works “sufficient hours in the UK” as assessed over that period—

• Step 1 Identify any days in the period on which P does more than 3 hours' work overseas, including ones on which P also does work in the UK on the same day. The days so identified are referred to as “disregarded days”.

• Step 2 Add up (for all employments held and trades carried on by P) the total number of hours that P works in the UK during the period, but ignoring any hours that P works in the UK on disregarded days. The result is referred to as P's “net UK hours”.

• Step 3 Subtract from 365—

  (a)

  the total number of disregarded days, and

  (b)

  any days that are allowed to be subtracted, in accordance with the rules in paragraph 28 of this Schedule, to take account of periods of leave and gaps between employments.

  The result is referred to as the “reference period”.

• Step 4 Divide the reference period by 7. If the answer is more than 1 and is not a whole number, round down to the nearest whole number. If the answer is less than 1, round up to 1.

• Step 5 Divide P's net UK hours by the number resulting from step 4.

  If the answer is 35 or more, P is considered to work “sufficient hours in the UK” as assessed over the 365-day period in question.

(3) This paragraph does not apply to P if—

(a) P has a relevant job on board a vehicle, aircraft or ship at any time in year X, and

(b) at least 6 of the trips that P makes in year X as part of that job are cross-border trips that either begin in the UK, end in the UK or begin and end in the UK.

10 (1) The fourth automatic UK test is that— U.K.

(a) P dies in year X,

(b) for each of the previous 3 tax years, P was resident in the UK by virtue of meeting the automatic residence test,

(c) even assuming P were not resident in the UK for year X, the tax year preceding year X would not be a split year as respects P (see Part 3 of this Schedule),

(d) when P died, either—

(i) P's home was in the UK, or

(ii) P had more than one home and at least one of them was in the UK, and

(e) if P had a home overseas during all or part of year X, P did not spend a sufficient amount of time there in year X.

(2) In relation to a home of P's overseas, P “spent a sufficient amount of time” there in year X if—

(a) there were at least 30 days in year X when P was present there on that day for at least some of the time (no matter how short a time), or

(b) P was present there for at least some of the time (no matter how short a time) on each day of year X up to and including the day on which P died.

(3) In sub-paragraph (2)—

(a) the reference to 30 days is to 30 days in aggregate, whether the days were consecutive or intermittent, and

(b) the reference to P being present at the home is to P being present there at a time when it was a home of P's.

(4) If P had more than one home overseas—

(a) each of those homes must be looked at separately to see if the requirement of sub-paragraph (1)(e) is met, and

(b) that requirement is then met so long as it is met in relation to each of them.