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UK Pensions and Inheritance Tax: What Brits in the UAE and GCC Need to Know Before April 2027

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If you are a British expat living in the UAE, Saudi Arabia, or elsewhere in the GCC, and you assumed your UK pension would pass to your family tax-free it’s time to revisit that assumption.

From 6th April 2027, the rules will change significantly, and combined with reforms already in force since April 2025, the UK’s inheritance tax (IHT) net now reaches further into expat life than it has previously.

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Need to know: The UK’s Foreign Spouse Exemption, the tax issue you don’t hear about

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I last covered this topic many years ago, so it is time for an update. If you are a Brit with a foreign husband or wife, or you are not British but are married to a Brit, this article is for you.

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News: British national with a foreign spouse? Good news!

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Although there have been whispers about this for some time, it now appears that the UK Government really is planning to relax the inheritance tax rules relating to British nationals with a foreign spouse.

The current situation is that under UK inheritance tax (IHT) rules transfers of assets between spouses are usually free from tax at all times and also at death, but only if both parties are UK domiciled, a legal concept separate to residency. In most cases a person needs to have been born in the UK, or for their father to have been, to be UK domiciled.

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