Our sources and methodology

What is Quit UK Tax, and what is it not?

Quit UK Tax is a free, plain-English wiki and toolkit explaining how to legally stop being a UK tax resident after you leave the UK — built on the Statutory Residence Test and split-year treatment. It is an educational resource, not a regulated adviser. We explain how the rules work; we do not assess your personal situation, sign off your residence status, or tell you what to do.

• We are not regulated advice. Nothing here is regulated tax, legal, accountancy or financial advice, and using the site creates no client or adviser relationship. We are not authorised or regulated by the FCA. For the full statement, read our disclaimer.
• We are not HMRC. Quit UK Tax is independent and privately operated. We cite and link to the official sources constantly — we are not them. The official route is always gov.uk and HMRC.
• Everything we cover is legal. Non-residence is a status you qualify for in statute (Finance Act 2013, Schedule 45), openly, and report — the opposite of evasion.

Why does Quit UK Tax have no named author?

Quit UK Tax is a brand-led, institutional wiki — authority comes from the work, not from a personality. There is no named author, founder, "expert" or pseudonym anywhere: no bylines, no headshots, no founder story. Content is attributed only to Quit UK Tax or the Quit UK Tax editorial team, and in our structured data the author and publisher are always an organisation, never a person.

That is a deliberate E-E-A-T posture, the way a reference work signals trust rather than a blog. The expertise is demonstrated by accurate, deeply sourced content; the authoritativeness by comprehensiveness and citation; the trust by transparency. In one line: HMRC wrote the rules. We translated them, dated them, sourced them — and built the calculator.

Which sources do we use, and why?

We build from primary sources only, in a strict hierarchy, and we name them. Forums, third-party blogs and accountancy-firm marketing guides are never sources for us — they are the trust gap we exist to fill.

How do we research and verify a claim?

1. One claim, one primary source. We state the rule, then cite the exact HMRC manual page or gov.uk page beside it — inline, where you read it. If a claim cannot be traced to a primary source, it does not go on a page.
2. Every figure is dated to the tax year. We write "£12,570 (2026/27, frozen to 5 April 2028)", never a bare number. The current UK tax year is 2026/27; thresholds match it and carry their source.
3. We cite the live source, and re-check it on review. HMRC periodically renumbers its manual pages, so each page links the source live at publication, and we re-verify on review. We will not ship a dead citation.
4. We re-state old worked examples in current-year terms. Worked figures (for instance the illustrative mid-year-leaver refund) are clearly labelled illustrative — the rate inputs are verified; the arithmetic is an example, never a promise.
5. Citations are visible. Inline links plus an end-of-page "Sources" list, so a human reader and an answer engine can both verify each claim against gov.uk.

How often do we review the content?

Accuracy is the product, so review is built in — and the "Last reviewed" stamp on every guide and tool reflects a real review date, never decoration.

• At launch, every page is stamped "Last reviewed: May 2026."
• Working cadence: quarterly, and at least annually as a floor.
• Out-of-cycle reviews are triggered by anything that can move a figure or rule — in particular the start of each tax year (6 April) and fiscal events.
• Tax-year rollover is a mandatory trigger. When 2027/28 becomes current, every figure and stamp is revisited.

How do we handle uncertainty and the edges of our scope?

We separate what the rule says (fixed — we state it boldly) from what it means for you (depends on your facts — we never sign that off). We deliberately do not cover certain areas, and we say so:

• Inbound / arrivals — coming to the UK, the remittance basis and the FIG regime for arrivers. Quit UK Tax is about leaving.
• Destination-country tax — UAE, Portuguese, US or any other country's residence rules. "Tax-resident nowhere" is always a UK-side statement.
• The deep inheritance-tax tail, company central management and control, and trusts — specialist territory we flag and route to a qualified adviser.

How do we correct errors?

• Report an error by emailing hello@quituktax.co.uk or using the contact form.
• What we do: we verify the report against the primary source; if a page is wrong, we fix it promptly and update the "Last reviewed" date to the real date of the correction.
• No silent edits to material facts. A corrected figure is re-dated and re-cited, so the page stays internally honest.

How is Quit UK Tax funded, and is it independent?

Quit UK Tax is independent and, for now, free — no ads, no lead-selling, no paywall, and no pre-ticked marketing consent. The free wiki and tools are the product. The only thing we ever ask is an optional, opt-in "email me my result" — your on-screen answer is never gated behind it.

If we introduce monetisation later — a disclosed referral to a vetted adviser, or a premium planning tool — we will disclose it clearly and never disguise it as editorial. See the about page for more on who we are and why we exist.

Who operates Quit UK Tax?