What works from anywhere
- The rent ledger, arrears and reminders to the tenant
- Certificate and deposit dates, with email reminders before each one lapses, and texts on a paid plan
- The tenancy agreement and other documents signed online, with an audit certificate
- Repairs reported by the tenant with photos, and jobs sent to a contractor
- Receipts photographed and read for you, and Making Tax Digital for UK property income
The Non-Resident Landlord Scheme
If your usual place of abode is outside the UK, the Non-Resident Landlord Scheme applies. Unless HMRC has approved you to receive rent gross, a letting agent must deduct basic-rate tax from the rent; with no agent, a tenant paying more than £100 a week must. For an individual landlord the application to receive rent gross is form NRL1.
Making Tax Digital still counts your UK income
If you were not UK resident, HMRC works out your qualifying income from your UK property income and any UK self-employment income. Foreign property income does not count towards it.
What needs someone in the UK
Viewings, inspections, inventories and photographs happen at the property. LetCompliance offers them as one-off jobs, but only locally, roughly within fifty minutes of Crewe. Elsewhere you need a local contact, an agent for those visits, or a trusted person with keys.
