How to track UK tax residency (SRT)
UK tax residency is decided by the Statutory Residence Test — a decision tree where your UK day count is the input to everything else. Bounded’s UK Tax Residency preset keeps that count on the right calendar: the UK tax year, which runs from April 6 to April 5 — not January to December.
Why the day count is the backbone
The SRT’s thresholds are all day-count bands within one tax year:
- 183+ days — automatically UK resident, no further questions.
- Under 16 days — automatically non-resident (for previous residents).
- 16–182 days — the “sufficient ties” zone, where the bands at 15, 45, 90, and 120 days decide how many UK ties (home, work, family, 90-day history) you can have before becoming resident.
A day counts when you are in the UK at midnight — one more reason border-crossing days deserve a precise record.
Tracking it
Add UK Tax Residency from the Tax tab. The card reads like 12 / 90 in tax year 2026/27 — the threshold is editable, so you can pin it to whichever ties band applies to you (90 is a common target for the 90-day tie itself). On April 6 the count resets with the new tax year.
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