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STOP PRESS: At Spring Budget 2024, the Chancellor announced that the remittance basis would be abolished from 6 April 2025, although this only applies to foreign income and gains arising on or after that date. The remittance basis rules still apply to unremitted income and gains arising before that date but remitted later. For more details, see the Abolition of the remittance basis from 2025/26 guidance note.

The profits from the surrender of certain life insurance policies are treated as savings income (rather than capital gains) and taxed last after all other income (ie top sliced) in the income tax computation. Usually the gain has a 20% deemed tax credit attached, which means that if the policyholder is a basic rate taxpayer they do not have any further tax to pay. For more on the tax credit and the reporting of life insurance gains, see the Life insurance policies guidance note. You should read that note before continuing as the commentary below assumes familiarity with the terms discussed in that guidance note.

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