Finance Act 2025

44 Excluded property: domicile test replaced with long-term residence test U.K.

(1) IHTA 1984 is amended as follows.

(2) In section 6 (excluded property), in subsections (1) and (1A), for “domiciled outside the United Kingdom” substitute “who is not a long-term UK resident”.

(3) After section 6 insert—

“6A “Long-term UK resident”: individuals

(1) For the purposes of this Act, an individual is a “long-term UK resident” at all times in a tax year if they were UK resident for at least 10 of the previous 20 tax years.

(2) But an individual is not a long-term UK resident at any time in a tax year (“the current tax year”) if they were non-UK resident—

(a) for any 10 consecutive tax years during the 19 tax years before the current tax year, or

(b) for at least the required number of consecutive tax years ending with the tax year before the current tax year.

(3) To determine “the required number” for the purposes of subsection (2)(b), take the 20 tax years ending with the last tax year for which the individual was UK resident and find the number of those tax years for which the individual was UK resident (“the number of resident years”).

The required number is the number in the second column of the following table corresponding to the number of resident years.

Number of resident years	Required number
13 or less	3
14	4
15	5
16	6
17	7
18	8
19	9
20	10

(4) In this section, “UK resident” means resident in the United Kingdom and “non-UK resident” means not resident in the United Kingdom.

(5) For the purposes of this section, a question as to whether the individual was UK resident for the tax year 2012-13 or an earlier tax year is to be determined as it would have been determined for income tax purposes for that tax year (and as to later tax years see Schedule 45 to the Finance Act 2013 (statutory residence test)).

(6) See also—

(a) section 6B (which modifies this section in its application to young persons);

(b) sections 267ZC to 267ZE (under which a person may be treated as a long-term UK resident as the result of an election).

6B “Long-term UK resident”: young persons

(1) In the application of section 6A(1) for the purpose of determining whether a young person is a long-term UK resident at any time in a tax year (“the current tax year”), that subsection has effect as if—

(a) for “20” there were substituted the number of whole tax years for which the person was alive before the current tax year, and

(b) for “10” there were substituted half the number mentioned in paragraph (a) (rounded up, if not a whole number, to the next whole number).

(2) In subsection (1), “young person” means an individual who was under the age of 20 immediately before the current tax year.

(3) For the purposes of this Act, an individual is not a long-term UK resident at any time in a tax year if they were under the age of 1 (or were not yet born) immediately before the tax year.

6C “Long-term UK resident”: bodies corporate

For the purposes of this Act, a body corporate is a “long-term UK resident” at all times in a tax year if the body—

(a) is incorporated in the United Kingdom, or

(b) was (if in existence before the beginning of the tax year) within the charge to corporation tax on income at any time during the previous tax year by virtue of section 5(1) of the Corporation Tax Act 2009 (UK resident companies).”

(4) This section comes into force on 6 April 2025.