How Not to Lose Money Leaving Britain and Living Abroad
Fifteen hidden costs nobody warns you about. The smallest is £700. The largest is £130,000.
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What is this book about?
Fifteen chapters. Every one of them is a specific amount of money that leaves your pocket when you leave Britain, or after you have gone.
Each chapter tells you what it costs, whether it applies to you, why it happens, and what to do about it with a date attached.
At the back there is a single page listing every action and every deadline in date order. That is the page most people keep.
Every figure was checked against gov.uk, HMRC and the official statistics on 26 September 2026, and where the sum is mine rather than a published number, the book says so and shows the working.
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What is in it
- The £700 penalty for filing a form late on a house you sold at a loss, and how it reaches £1,600
- Why an empty house in Britain can cost £7,176 a year extra in council tax, and the three thresholds that make it worse
- The single date, 5 April 2027, that closes the cheap way to fill a pension gap for good, £767 a year for every year you miss
- Why the NHS stops the day you go, and why the form that turns it back on does not work outside Europe
- The £1,323 refund nobody sends you, and the four year limit on claiming it
- How many days you can come back before Britain still counts you as living here, and the £5,293 a year it costs when you get it wrong
- Why your British child is charged foreign prices at a British university, between £46,600 and £70,300 more, and none of it can be borrowed
- The inheritance tax that follows you for up to ten years, £130,000 on a worked example, and the table that tells you how long your own tail runs
- Why HMRC own website will not accept your tax return, and the 31 October deadline nobody mentions
- The £2,116 Britain keeps taking out of your pay for 52 weeks after you have gone
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Who this is for
You are still in Britain and working out how to go. Some of these costs disappear entirely if you act before you leave. Several have deadlines.
You already left. Ten of the fifteen chapters bite hardest once you are gone. If you left last year, or five years ago, this is still your book.
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11 years
Living outside Britain
3 countries
Lived in, not visited
£1m+
Of property owned abroad and at home
The price
One hour with a cross border tax adviser costs more than this book. Most people spend that hour asking the questions this book already answers.
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My guarantee
Read it. If you decide within 30 days that it was not worth the money, email me and I will refund you. No questions and no form to fill in.
James Hopkins
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What this is not
It is not advice. It is what the rules say, what they cost, and what I would check. Then you go and get proper advice from someone qualified. The point is that you will know what to ask them.
It is not a course. No modules, no homework, no video calls.
It is not about one country. Almost everything in it is a British rule, and it follows you anywhere.
Nobody pays me to tell you where to go. I take no money from anyone who gains when you choose a particular country, and there are no affiliate links. If a company pays to appear on this page, it says so here.
PDF, 46 pages, delivered by email the moment you buy. Read it on a phone or print it.
£14
30 day money back guarantee