Two very contrasting views on the non-domicile rule have hit the press today. Accountancy Age have reported a press release from tax lawyers Pinsent Mason saying: The number of UK taxpayers registered with HMRC as non-domiciled (non-doms) has fallen by 2,000 in a year as the impact of the £30,000 annual non-dom levy continues to bite,
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I mentioned an attack on the TUC’s tax avoidance spoof magazine ‘Kerching‘ by Mayfair lawyer Miles Dean yesterday. He followed up his attack with an article in Accountancy Age. Today I got the right to reply, as follows: “MILES DEAN thinks the Tax Union Congress’s (TUC) spoof celebrity magazine Kerching! that highlights tax avoidance is “inflammatory, ill-informed, misleading
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I wrote the blog reproduced below in March 2007, but nothing of substance has changed on this issue since then. Except that the government has now announced a review of the domicile laws as they relate to taxation – promising token gesture changes in exchange for a guarantee that non-doms will then be left alone. Except, as this blog
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The following is a parliamentary answer on tax paid in the UK by non-coms. Of course what it does not say is what tax was not paid in the UK by non-coms, but the sums involved (£48,000 of tax a head on average in 2008/09) suggest some must be doing very well out of the
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I was rung by numerous organisations yesterday wanting to ask my opinion on non-domiciled and taxation. The story reappeared in the press at the weekend with the suggestion being made that George Osborne is considering reducing the seven year period which can elapse before a non-domiciled person has to pay a levy make use of
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As if one new TUC tax report is not enough for a day, over the weekend the TUC issued a second report by me, this one calling for abolition of the domicile rule in the UK and for radical reform of the UK’s tax residence rules. As the report notes: The UK needs new tax
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  The ConDem government has launched a new web site – called Your Freedom – that is dedicated, it says, to scrapping unnecessary laws. Well, I have a few that seriously restrict my rights, freedoms and liberties I would definitely like to get rid of. I’ll be listing a number of suggestions over coming days.
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The following parliamentary question and answer were reported on 3 March in the House of Lords: Question Asked by Lord Oakeshott of Seagrove Bay To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many taxpayers who are registered with HM Revenue and Customs as non-domiciled are (a) resident, and (b) non-resident, in the United Kingdom. [HL1128] Answer The
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Johann Hari has an article in the Independent this morning on the above issues. As he notes: Contrary to the claims of their apologists, there is nothing inevitable about tax exiles. The Tax Justice Network and the brilliant financial expert Richard Murphy have laid out a clear road-map for how to end them. Well, that’s
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