Domicil: Electoral Register

(asked on 28th August 2026) - View Source

Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether electoral registration impacts non-domiciled tax status.


Answered by
James Murray Portrait
James Murray
Financial Secretary to the Treasury and Paymaster General
This question was answered on 8th September 2026

As of April 2025, the Government removed the concept of domicile from the UK tax system and replaced it with a residence-based regime. An individual's UK tax residence is now determined by the Statutory Residence Test (SRT), which assesses factors such as time spent in the UK and other connecting ties. Electoral registration does not determine an individual's tax residence status.

Further information on the SRT is available here:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/rdr3-statutory-residence-test-srt/guidance-note-for-statutory-residence-test-srt-rdr3

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