Nicholas Ogden v Commissioners for Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs

Decision date: 28 March 2011

Neutral citation: [2011] UKFTT 212 (TC)

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Short overview

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The appellant, a Jersey resident, spent over 183 days in the UK in 2002–03 caring for an ill son; HMRC amended his self-assessment to include his salary and a termination payment, increasing his tax liability. The First-tier Tribunal found he was resident and ordinarily resident in the UK for that tax year, rejected arguments that compassionate or exceptional reasons excluded days from the 183-day test, and held the foreign service exception did not apply to the termination payment. The appeal was dismissed and HMRC’s amendment upheld.

Ratio decidendi

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The Tribunal applied the statutory 183-day residence rule: spending 183 days or more in the UK in the tax year renders a person resident and ordinarily resident for that year, and compassionate or exceptional personal circumstances did not displace that statutory test in this case. The Tribunal also treated the termination payment as chargeable under s19 ICTA and therefore not within the foreign service exception in s148 ICTA.

Obiter dicta

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The decision noted that HMRC’s sympathy for personal circumstances or informal indications from local tax offices cannot create exceptions to or displace clear statutory residence rules; such practical sympathy does not override the statutory test.

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