Ex pat tax
It used to be, stay away for most of the year ( in the UK for 90 days or less) and avoid paying UK tax.
Then the rules changed, and it all got a bit complex.
Now, my chum tells me, if I work full time overseas (India in this case), make no visit to the UK greater than 31 days, and spend less than 91 days there in a year.....then I'm not liable for UK tax in any way. This as from 2013.
I don't have HMRCs stuff to hand, and if I did, I'd probably struggle to understand it- but is my chum broadly correct?
If so, it seems that all that 'sliding scale' stuff- ie whether or not u have a house, a wife, dependants and so on, has gone in the bin.