At the end of the day

The confusion created by the Gaines-Cooper case rumbles on. It seems faintly ridiculous that the argument centres around when a day is not a day, but of such minutiae, landmark decisions are made. Tax adviser Carol Wells, from Irwin Mitchell Solicitors, examines the ramifications of the case in detail on page 32, but the fact that it has made headline news in Britain's national newspapers tells its own tale. On the one hand, it has been common knowledge that expats could slightly bend the rules of residency by not counting travelling days towards their allowance of days spent in the UK....