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Whenever I hear politicians spouting drivel I am reminded of W.H. Auden’s poem The Ogre:
“The Ogre does what ogres can,
Deeds quite impossible for Man,
But one prize is beyond his reach:
The Ogre cannot master speech.
About a subjugated plain,
Among its desperate and slain,
The Ogre stalks with hands on hips,
While drivel gushes from his lips.”
How many ” non-doms ” are there currently in the UK ?
Do they live here all year round and do they have foreign passports?
The data is out of date but likely around 60,000
They are U.K. tax resident
They can have U.K. passports, or not
‘Boris Shrugged’.
That is Tory policy right now.
‘Shrug politics’
Does the equivalent of Non Dom status exist anywhere else in the world?
Ireland
Italy, to some degree
Here’s another nice big ‘legal’ loophole – the Law of Limitation.
My wife bought an apartment, a leasehold one, very silly but like so many others she didn’t know what she was letting herself in for. The solicitor she used didn’t do her job properly – now there’s a surprise. When challenged by another solicitor, the first one said ‘she had lost the file’. After 7 years and 1 week she found the file – wasn’t that a coincidence. Apparently there is only one other place that has leasehold and that is Hawaii.
As a footnote to this issue, we had to go to the Land registry in Portsmouth – none of those that work there ever use a solicitor to check the issues with buying property – they don’t trust them to do the job properly and as they said, only office juniors are used to check if the property is legal, meets Building control Regs. etc.
Parliament is infested with lawyers in all parties. I am reminded of Will Shakespeare’s comment on lawyers, personally I think he was wrong, let’s get some real work out of them first.