If you rent out your main UK property and only rent in Australia, and subsequently sell, would this be classified as your main residence and therefore be exempt from CGT in the UK and Australia?

There have been a lots of queries around this area, but this particular question has not been answered...

Thanks

The short and sweet answer is NO. It can harldly be you main residence if you live 100's miles away.

Nice try though

Thanks for that, thought it might be the case. The actual term used by the IR is:

"An individual's or married couple's only or main residence. "

And these things can be subject to legal 'interpretation'.

What would happen if you rented in Aus for a couple of years, decided that you wanted to stay, served notice on your tenants and your rental property, put your stuff into storage, went back for a couple of months, moved back in and sold up, this would then be your only residence...? My best guess is that you would hit all sorts of tax residency rules.