Originally Posted by
Janda
I lived in New Zealand for 24 years all of which I received my RAF pension. I found it was cheaper to pay UK tax than NZ which is charged from dollar 1. You may be aware that you can reduce your tax bill if you have a wife/partner who has a been a UK tax payer and is not using their allowance.
https://www.gov.uk/marriage-allowance
So you actually owe the New Zealand IRD a lot of back tax as, if you are resident in NZ your worldwide income should be declared to the IRD and taxed accordingly. If you have already paid some UK tax the IRD take this into account and tax the difference so you don't pay tax twice. The best solution for me was to write to HMRC who agreed to waive UK tax and sent me the appropriate form which was sent back to HMRC via the IRD.
This means I only have to deal with one tax authority.