BUZZ ACCOUNTINGThe rules that quietly cost expats money.
Written up properly as they change — with the deadlines, the numbers and what to do about each one. No filler.
24 August 2026
Your 2020/21 NI year disappears in April — here's what that actually costs you
Voluntary National Insurance can only reach back six tax years, which gives the system a silent annual deadline: every 5 April, one more year of your pension record becomes permanently unfixable. What's still open, what each year is worth, and how to decide properly in one sitting.
24 August 2026
The 20% missing from your rent statement: what it is and how to get it back
If you've moved abroad and your letting agent's statements have quietly shrunk, look for a line marked 'tax' or 'NRL'. It isn't a mistake and it isn't optional for the agent — but it is fixable, usually with a refund at the end. The mechanics, the two forms, and the recovery sequence.
24 August 2026
Selling UK property from abroad? You have 60 days and your solicitor probably won't tell you
Completion starts a clock that most conveyancers never mention: non-residents must file a CGT return within 60 days — even at a loss, even at nil. Where the rule came from, what filing involves, and the exact salvage routine if you've already blown the deadline.
24 August 2026
A year into the FIG regime: the three mistakes new arrivals keep making
The four-year tax window that replaced the non-dom rules is genuinely generous — and claim-based, allowance-costing and hard-edged. After a full filing season, the same three errors keep walking through the door. Here's each one, and the shape of getting it right.
24 August 2026
The frozen pension map: where your UK State Pension stops growing the day you retire
Retire in Toronto and your UK State Pension is frozen for life; retire twenty miles south in the USA and it rises every April. The uprating map is arbitrary, decades old, politically stuck — and it should shape both where the maths points and how you value buying NI years.
24 August 2026
Leaving the UK: the ten tax jobs that are cheap now and expensive later
Between booking the movers and boarding the flight, there is a short list of tax jobs that cost almost nothing done in the right month and four figures done in the wrong year. The complete list, in the order the deadlines actually arrive.