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UK and US consulting: cross-border tax questions
Your clients may be spread across two countries while your own working life follows a different pattern. Build a project-level picture: the contracting party, what you did, where you did it and how you were paid. That is more useful for a first discussion than a single total labelled overseas income.
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Your cross-border tax questions.
Keep your personal arrangements distinct from any company you use. Identify travel for client work separately from work completed at your usual desk.
- Which questions concern me personally and which concern my business?
- What should I ask about work physically performed during client visits?
- Who can review payment paperwork and any amounts withheld?
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Records for your tax review.
Keep these in your own records. You do not need to send Treaty documents, amounts or personal details.
- Contracts and invoices grouped by project
- Payment statements and any withholding documents
- Private notes of where services were performed
Your next step in tax research.
Choose one representative project and assemble its complete paper trail. Use that example to agree the scope of a cross-border review before supplying the rest.
Official tax guidance
Use the tax authorities’ guidance for the period and circumstances you are reviewing. These links are starting points, not an answer about your own position.
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Explore the UK–US diagnosticPreliminary only—not tax advice. No email, documents or exact amounts required.