UK Investor Visa and Tax Efficient Planning

UK Investor Visas are the fastest way to get a visa to come to the UK providing you have at least £1m to invest in the UK. If you can prove this you should be eligible to receive a 12 month UK Investor Visa. This can then be extended providing the £1m investment was made within 3 months of your arrival in the UK and met certain conditions.

Of the £1m, at least £750,000 of your investment must be invested in Unit Trusts and Private Companies not including Property Investment Companies, Offshore Companies or Bank and Building Society Accounts. Providing £750,000 of your investment meets these conditions you are free to invest the remainder as you wish.

There are opportunities, both before receiving your visa and after, to structure your investments tax efficiently to maximise your returns. We are able to advise and assist you on:

• Statutory reporting requirements such as the preparation of UK tax returns.
• The impact of your long term planning on your exposure to UK taxation, including your domicile status.
• The tax reliefs available for those investments in which you are required to invest £750,000, including the Enterprise Investment Scheme and Venture Capital Trusts.
• The creation of tax structures such as excluded property trusts to shelter non UK assets that you do not wish to bring in the UK from UK income, capital gains and inheritance tax.
• The most beneficial use of the remittance basis of taxation, enabling you to decide between different taxation treatments of your non-UK investments.
• Ways of structuring your affairs to minimise taxation if you chose to leave the UK.
• A wide range of tax planning opportunities for the unrestricted element of your UK investment.