Connected to both places
Life between the UK and US
You might live in both places, work across them, or keep family and financial ties in one while making a home in the other. Start with the situation that matches your question.
Tax residence, citizenship and filing are questions to investigate, not labels this selection assigns to you.
What brings these countries into your life?
Work
Moving to the US for work: tax questions to prepare for
Explore tax residence, employment income and payroll questions before starting a US job with UK ties.
Life in two places
Splitting your year between the UK and US: tax residence
Organise your questions about tax residency, workdays and financial ties when your year spans the UK and US.
Life in two places
US citizen living in the UK: cross-border tax questions
Review the tax questions raised by UK income, new accounts and continuing US citizenship connections.
Work
A US assignment and a UK home: tax planning questions
Prepare for a tax review of your assignment, payroll, allowances and the home you keep in the UK.
Work
Starting a London job: UK and US tax questions
Bring together questions about UK payroll, employment benefits and the US financial arrangements you retain.
Work
UK remote work for a US employer: tax and payroll questions
Separate personal tax residence, employment income and employer payroll questions when your desk is in the UK.
Work
UK and US consulting: cross-border tax questions
Prepare a tax-research agenda covering self-employment income, client payments, withholding paperwork and where you work.
Work
A business across the UK and US: personal and company tax
Separate personal income-tax questions from company tax questions before reviewing a founder’s cross-border arrangements.
Money and property
UK–US employee share awards: tax questions before a move
Organise the grant, vesting and transaction records needed to ask focused questions about share-award taxation.
Work
Returning to the UK from US work: tax questions
Prepare questions about tax residence, final employment income and US accounts or pensions retained after returning.
Family and study
Partners in the UK and US: household tax questions
Frame separate tax-residence and income questions for each partner, alongside questions about jointly held assets.
Family and study
A staged UK–US family move: tax-residence questions
Build individual timelines for a tax review when work, housing and family moves happen on different dates.
Family and study
A longer family visit abroad: tax questions to revisit
Organise tax-residence and remote-work questions when a caring visit changes your UK–US travel plans.
Family and study
Studying in the UK: tax questions with US connections
Prepare questions about student funding, employment income and your wider US and UK tax position.
Work
A UK–US academic sabbatical: tax and funding questions
Separate salary, grants and reimbursed expenses for a tax discussion about your visiting appointment.
Money and property
UK rental property while living in the US: tax questions
Gather property-income records and questions for a UK–US tax review before changing your letting or ownership arrangements.
Money and property
US property while living in the UK: cross-border tax
Prepare property-tax questions covering ownership, rental income, personal use and a possible future sale.
Money and property
A UK pension and a US life: cross-border tax questions
Identify your pension arrangement and prepare tax questions before contributions, transfers or retirement withdrawals.
Money and property
US retirement accounts in the UK: tax questions
Prepare questions about retirement-account taxation before a rollover, conversion or distribution while living in the UK.
Money and property
UK–US investments: tax and reporting questions
Organise holdings, investment income and transaction records before asking about cross-border tax and reporting.
Retirement
Retiring in the UK as a US citizen: tax questions
Plan a US–UK tax discussion around pension income, retirement payments, citizenship and your intended living arrangements.
Work
Frequent UK–US work travel: tax-residence and payroll questions
Gather working-location records for a coordinated discussion of personal tax, business travel and employer payroll.
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