American songbook

Our client is a musician. He gets lots of work in this country and is VAT registered. We are on top of the UK side of things.

We do all his accounts and complete the VAT returns. He has now gone to live in America for a year.

While there he is earning from engagements and of course his royalties continue here plus he returns to the UK to make individual appearances and do other paid work.

Oddly enough he doesn’t have a residence in the bricks-and-mortar sense in this country. He is renting a property in America.

Readers’ suggestions would be very welcome as to how we should tackle this American aspect. We have a feeling that we need an American accountant to deal with things over there as far as the incidence of tax on income is concerned.

But do we charge VAT to the...