Course Details

This course will refresh participants on the workings of the UK statutory residence test, taking you through the elements of the test in detail and suggesting practical ideas for record keeping for clients who are internationally mobile. At the end of the session, you should be confident working through a set of facts to determine your client’s residence status for UK tax.


In this course Rebecca Benneyworth covers the following:

  • How is the test relevant to tax?
  • The overall structure of the test
  • Automatic overseas tests
  • Automatic UK tests
  • The sufficient ties test

CPD Course Speaker

Rebecca Benneyworth Training

Rebecca Benneyworth

Rebecca is an ICAEW Chartered Accountant. She is a lecturer, writer and consultant on a variety of taxes, lecturing extensively throughout the UK, to accountants, business people and also to HMRC and the Treasury. She has her own accountancy practice based in Gloucestershire, with a variety of small business and personal tax clients.

During the last two years, this has become a 100% digital practice. She is Chair of the HMRC Digital Advisory Group, providing help and support to HMRC in understanding the challenges that Making Tax Digital presents to small businesses and their advisers.

She is also a member of the Admin Burdens Advisory Board, an independent advisory group to HMRC monitoring the burdens which the tax system imposes on businesses.