{"id":28159,"date":"2015-03-05T07:17:10","date_gmt":"2015-03-05T07:17:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=28159"},"modified":"2015-03-05T07:17:10","modified_gmt":"2015-03-05T07:17:10","slug":"the-wealthy-are-worried-we-might-tax-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2015\/03\/05\/the-wealthy-are-worried-we-might-tax-them\/","title":{"rendered":"The wealthy are worried we might tax them"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2015\/mar\/05\/number-ultra-rich-173000-uhnwis-property\" target=\"_blank\">to elite state agents Knight Frank<\/a> the rich are getting richer, and are in London:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>London has been home to more of the ultra-rich than any other city for the past three years (4,364 in 2014), with New York in second place.<\/p>\n<p>London should still be in the top spot 10 years from now, Knight Frank said, but Singapore will be snapping at its heels, with 54% growth in its wealth brigade over that period, against a 21% rise in the UK capital.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Let's not mention the domicile rule for a moment, and let's instead look at what the rich are, apparently worried about, which is:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2015\/03\/05\/the-wealthy-are-worried-we-might-tax-them\/screen-shot-2015-03-05-at-07-11-47\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-28160\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-28160\" src=\"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Screen-Shot-2015-03-05-at-07.11.47.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2015-03-05 at 07.11.47\" width=\"550\" height=\"265\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Screen-Shot-2015-03-05-at-07.11.47.png 2218w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Screen-Shot-2015-03-05-at-07.11.47-550x265.png 550w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Screen-Shot-2015-03-05-at-07.11.47-300x144.png 300w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Screen-Shot-2015-03-05-at-07.11.47-623x300.png 623w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Screen-Shot-2015-03-05-at-07.11.47-200x96.png 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Number two on their list, after maintaining the dynasty, is wealth taxation.<\/p>\n<p>And rightly so.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to elite state agents Knight Frank the rich are getting richer, and are in London: London has been home to more of the ultra-rich<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2015\/03\/05\/the-wealthy-are-worried-we-might-tax-them\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[147],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-inequality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28159\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}