Tell HMRC about Capital Gains Tax on UK property or land if you're not a UK resident
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When and how to report disposals of UK property or land to HMRC and pay Capital Gains Tax if you're not a resident in the UK.
Adapted edition
- Document type
- Reference Guide
- Format
- DOCX
- Pages
- 5
- Language
- English
- Version
- 1.0
- Updated
- 2026-09-17
- Category
- Governance & assurance
- Licence
- Open Government Licence v3.0
Description
When and how to report disposals of UK property or land to HMRC and pay Capital Gains Tax if you're not a resident in the UK. Consult the original guidance for current legal and operational details.
Contents
- Direct disposals
- Indirect disposals
- Deadlines for reporting a disposal and paying what you owe
- Reporting disposals
- If you cannot report online
- Using a tax agent
- If the property that was disposed was jointly owned
- Non-resident companies making a disposal
- Trustees of non-UK resident trusts that make a disposal
- Temporary non-residents who make a disposal
- Personal representatives who make a disposal for a deceased person who lived abroad
- How to report the disposal
- After you've reported your disposal
- If you complete a Self Assessment tax return
- Keep records
Source and licence
HM Revenue & Customs
AttributionHM Revenue & Customs, ‘Tell HMRC about Capital Gains Tax on UK property or land if you're not a UK resident’ (updated 13 January 2026), reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
ChangesNeutral text-only adaptation from the official GOV.UK Content API body: headings, paragraphs, ordered and unordered list items and clickable source-link destinations in an appendix preserved. Images, logos, page design, accessible-format request widgets and linked attachments excluded; normalised whitespace, invisible format marks and typography.
Version history
- v1.017/09/2026