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Advice - California to UK
« on: August 20, 2007, 10:18:05 PM »
I'm looking to move from California to Liverpool come November 2007.

My question is; Has anyone here moved from California to the UK and gone through the whole taxation situation? I'm looking for any helpful links that might help me understand a bit more on what I WILL OWE to the US and UK while living / working abroad and if it's even worth taking a job for 25k GBP a year in the UK when I am currently making 45k USD in the states.

Any tips and advice is greatly appreciated.

Thanks all!
Jason


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Re: Advice - California to UK
« Reply #1 on: August 21, 2007, 04:19:35 AM »
Ok so from what I understand after reading the IRS.gov website is that if you don't make 84K USD a year, then you're exempt from Federal taxes.

How about California state tax? Anyone have any experience with this? I can't find any darn info on this part of things.


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Re: Advice - California to UK
« Reply #2 on: August 31, 2007, 11:04:33 AM »
Jason,

CA - depends on how long you plan to spend time away from USA, whether or not you sell your CA home, etc.  Probably no more CA tax.  But it's never that easy!

Issues of "domicile" come into play.  The US definition is different than the CA definition, which in turn are both different from the UK definition; all in very subtle ways.  Hint:  You do NOT want to acquire a UK domicile if you can at all avoid it!  UK domicile is determined by intent, intent can not be proven, so if you say you intend to return to the USA one day, then you are not UK domiciled.

If you ask for further clarification about US, UK, & CA residence/domicile over the internet, you will get (a) conflicting answers and (b) very, very conservative answers in an attempt (by the poster) to protect themselves from liability for false advise.  It is best to have a quick chat with someone over the phone.  Most accountants do not charge for a short introductory phone call.

Cheers,

Lizzit

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Re: Advice - California to UK
« Reply #3 on: September 07, 2007, 09:02:00 PM »
Thank you Lizzit! I thought everyone had forgotten me in this thread :)

Very helpful!


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