Meaning & use
non-domicile
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Meanings
nouncountableBritishlegal
A person who lives in a country but whose permanent legal home, for tax purposes, is considered to be elsewhere.
Grammar: Countable, and in British speech often shortened to non-dom.
Patterns
- a non-domicile in somewhere
As a non-domicile, she paid UK tax only on the money she brought into the country.
The law changed how non-domiciles are taxed on their income from abroad.
Many wealthy non-domiciles lived in London but kept their legal home abroad.
adjectivebefore a nounlegal
Describing a person or tax status linked to a permanent home outside the country where one currently lives.
Grammar: Used before a noun: non-domicile status.
Patterns
- non-domicile status
He applied for non-domicile status when he moved to England.
The accountant explained the non-domicile rules in detail.
Non-domicile tax rules were a topic in the election debate.
Word forms
| plural | non-domiciles |
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Common combinations
- non-domicile status
- Non-domicile status can affect how much tax you owe.
- claim non-domicile status
- She claimed non-domicile status after moving abroad.
- non-domicile rules
- The non-domicile rules were reformed last year.
- non-domicile taxation
- The article covers non-domicile taxation in simple terms.
Synonyms and how they differ
- non-dom
- Non-dom is the informal short form, popular in British news and speech.
- expatriate
- An expatriate is anyone living abroad, but a non-domicile is a specific legal and tax status.
- non-resident
- Non-resident means you do not live in the country at all, while a non-domicile does live there but has a legal home elsewhere.
Opposites
Word family
- domicile noun
- the country that is a person's permanent legal home
- domiciled adjective
- having a permanent home in a certain place
- domiciliary adjective
- relating to a home or residence
- domicile verb
- to establish in a particular place as a legal home
Commonly confused: non-domicile or resident?
non-domicile vs resident
A resident lives in a place now. Domicile is about your permanent legal home, so you can be resident in one country and domiciled in another.
Practice
She lives in London but her permanent legal home is in India, so she is a ___ for tax purposes.
Choose one answer.
A non-domicile lives in a country while having a legal home elsewhere. Non-resident would mean she does not live in London.
Make it your own
Write a sentence using “non-domicile”, then check it and compare it with the examples above.