The Court of Appeal (“CA”) has upheld a decision of the Employment Appeal Tribunal that a seaman employed on a ship registered outside Great Britain can bring an unfair dismissal claim in the UK […]
Category: International Assignments
International Assignments: Short term business visitors and PAYE
Tax liabilities take many employers by surprise […]
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Employment: Clarification of territorial scope of race and age discrimination legislation
Employees who work at least partly in the UK are entitled to rely on UK legislation to bring race and age discrimination claims. […]
Expatriates: New rules for non-UK domiciled and not ordinarily resident taxpayers
Under the UK tax system those who have a non-UK domicile are entitled to use the remittance basis of taxation whereby only income and gains which they “remit” to the UK is taxable here. So too the remittance basis applies to those individuals who are not ordinarily resident in the UK, but only in relation […]
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International Assignments: A new concealed tax on sport?
International athletes who attend sporting events in the UK may be subjected to UK tax on a higher proportion of their worldwide earnings than has previously been the case before.
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Compensation & Benefits: New PAYE penalty regime from April 2010
HMRC has issued a draft order providing that the new penalty regime for late payment of income tax under PAYE will come into force from 6 April 2010 […]
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International Assignments: Double tax treaties
Recent developments and programme to 31 March 2010 announced by HMRC
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International Assignments: Residency in the UK- where are we now?
In recent weeks, there have been a number of decisions highlighting the complexities surrounding residence in the UK […]
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Data Protection: Information Commissioner’s Office gets teeth
The Information Commissioner’s Office has been granted new enhanced powers […]
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International Assignments: A guide to living and working in Switzerland as a foreign individual
“Can the last person to leave please turn off the lights…” […]