Your fact-checks will appear here
UK government non-ministerial department (2005-)
UK law does not set universal, fixed retention periods for most types of personal data; controllers must justify retention based on purpose and document retention schedules (ICO guidance and Practical...
UK law treats lottery winnings themselves as tax‑free: winners do not pay Income Tax or Capital Gains Tax on the prize (multiple industry and HMRC‑based guides note this) . However, gifts made from wi...
HMRC does not publicly advertise a routine power to directly extract an individual’s mobile phone GPS or continuous location history for travel-pattern analysis; reporting and guidance instead point t...
The evidence from the provided analyses shows there is from digital ID requirements for particular jobs in the UK; instead, exemptions or flexibilities are being designed around *circumstances* — nota...
The Statutory Residence Test (SRT) treats “ties” as specific connections to the UK—family, accommodation, work, time spent previously and a country tie among others—and the number of ties you have red...
The £71,000 “working-family benchmark” appears in research from the Centre for Social Justice (CSJ) as the gross annual income their modelled three-child working household would need to match the post...
HMRC does not run a blanket program that simply tracks how often Britons travel abroad to determine tax liability; official statements and reporting show the department instead uses targeted checks an...
Around one in three people in the UK are receiving some combination of DWP-administered benefits, with DWP reporting 13.1 million State Pension recipients in February 2025 and media citing “around 24 ...
As of late 2025 the UK does not have a formal, long‑standing “exit tax” that treats all departing individuals as if they’d sold every asset on emigration; however, heavy debate through 2024–25 produce...
UK law does not set one single statutory period for online data retention; instead controllers must justify how long they keep personal data under the UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR) a...
There is no up-to-date, authoritative breakdown in the provided reporting that states how many NHS consultants “currently do no private practice at all” by specialty and region; the sources here are f...
HMRC’s Statutory Residence Test (SRT) counts a “day in the UK” mainly by presence at midnight; automatic overseas tests can declare you non‑resident if you spend fewer than specified day thresholds (e...
HMRC determines individual tax residence primarily using the Statutory Residence Test (SRT): automatic tests (like 183 days in the UK or having a UK home for 91 consecutive days) then, if neither auto...
Self-employed individuals cannot universally "opt out" of the UK’s digital ID and Making Tax Digital (MTD) requirements; however, HMRC now offers a for MTD that lets some self-employed taxpayers avoid...
The core allegation circulating is not that Nigel Farage himself was directly accused of improperly claiming parliamentary expenses, but that , prompting questions about tax residency, donation origin...
UK National Lottery prizes are paid tax-free: winners do not pay income tax or capital gains tax on the prize itself (multiple sources) . But the way you use the money creates conventional tax risks —...
The UK Statutory Residence Test (SRT) is a prescriptive, three-part set of rules used to decide whether an individual is UK tax resident for a given tax year; core features include automatic overseas ...
The UK limits access to mainstream benefits for many migrants through the "no recourse to public funds" (NRPF) rule and recent policy pushes that tighten asylum and ILR timelines, making Britain one o...
The UK capital gains tax (CGT) rates applied to foreign assets in the supplied analyses are inconsistent: several consumer guides report , while HMRC-focused notes emphasize that residential property ...
The available analyses indicate the UK’s forthcoming digital ID scheme will require most self-employed people to hold a phone-based digital ID for Right to Work checks and access to some government se...