UK SRT / work travel: how do you prove days in/out of the UK if HMRC ever asks?

tanyavrlmv · Feb 15, 2026

I keep seeing the same issue: people think days in country / tax residency day counts are simple until they need to prove physical presence (UK Statutory Residence Test (SRT), UK “workdays”, bank/KYC, etc.). And then the “day log” gets messy fast because sources don’t match. So I’m curious: what’s your current source of truth for travel days (spreadsheet, calendar, apps like Flamingo Compliance or TrackingDays, email travel receipts, bank statements, something else)?

Gecko001 · Feb 16, 2026

Do you yourself know how many days you have been in/out of the UK? Surely you have some records whether it be in a dairy, or your mobile phone to enable you to work it out fairly accurately.

Chris Ashdown · Feb 16, 2026

When i was a freelance sailor , i used to just add up the dates i invoiced, but also had a seaman's book filled in by the skipper joining and leaving but they did not include days traveling and hotels waiting for a ship to come in. You can always request your passport stamped

JEREMY HAWKE · Feb 16, 2026

You passport would have been stamped if entering and leaving the EU

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