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@issylostneedtobefound Yes, thats exactly what I said here : "He may be physically living abroad but for tax purposes he is very much a British taxpayer" I live abroad for most of the year, but I pay my taxes in the UK. And I have an ISA.

@frankdougans Tricky area this. I hate it when people write this, but im going to do it myself - "get advice from a qualified tax advisor". But TBH, the sheer difficultly of finding someone specialising in this, not to mention the cost, makes this "advice" impractical in real life. So, what i...

@sofie Sure, but OP is a British national with an existing UK bank account and a UK property. He may be physically living abroad but for tax purposes he is very much a British taxpayer.

@eve_marie As I am not resident in the UK, then ISAs and fixed rate bonds are not available for me to use to grow the money (as far as I know? please correct me if wrong!) I believe you may be mistaken. You still have UK bank accounts, so why cannot you simply open an ISA with one of the bank...

@hi2u_uk Anyone who stays over 183 days in a year in Colombia is automatically a tax-resident. They have to file taxes - it doesn't mean they have to pay any tax, cos of double tax treaties, amount of earnings etc. But they have to file for taxes. Pls talk to a specialist accountant regarding...

@frankdougans My understanding is that since you are a US citizen, you have to file US taxes regardless of where you live in the world. W8BEN is for the rest of us, and is basically a form that says "Pls, Mr US taxman, don't tax me on my dividend income from the stocks I hold in US based...