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Simply if you are wealthy you can pay people to tell you how to avoid paying tax. The ordinary man in the street who is not self-employed has no such advise available.

The result is we the Plebs pay all the tax we should by law, whilst the wealthy do not. They still pay more than we do though.
 
Gray said:
Simply if you are wealthy you can pay people to tell you how to avoid paying tax. The ordinary man in the street who is not self-employed has no such advise available.

The result is we the Plebs pay all the tax we should by law, whilst the wealthy do not. They still pay more than we do though.
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Do they ? Shell has paid no tax in the UK for years ... despite the huge profits they make out of the UK population.
 
metalblue said:
Totally different debate but I’d have no issues in removing non dom.
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Well the story is now developing into they had Green cards during his first year as chancellor, so in theory they must have been paying US tax on international earnings.

However the most likely thing is she's been funnelling her money off to a tax haven, as do most non-doms. Something that was dodged in their statement to the press.

I don't think the debate here should be whether non-dom status is right or wrong to exist, that's far too wide and far reaching a subject.

It's that the associated benefits of being in a marriage with a globe trotting international non-dom is 100% incompatible with the office of Chancellor of the Exchequer of the UK, and it's even more mind boggling when said chancellor putting taxes up during a cost of living crisis.

He's absolutely cooked as Chancellor and he'll never be PM now.

Agree 100% people can't expect him to give up his wifes citizenship, but he will have to give up his ambitions of holding one of the 4 great offices of state.
 
Del_Bosque said:
Well the story is now developing into they had Green cards during his first year as chancellor, so in theory they must have been paying US tax on international earnings.

However the most likely thing is she's been funnelling her money off to a tax haven, as do most non-doms. Something that was dodged in their statement to the press.

I don't think the debate here should be whether non-dom status is right or wrong to exist, that's far too wide and far reaching a subject.

It's that the associated benefits of being in a marriage with a globe trotting international non-dom is 100% incompatible with the office of Chancellor of the Exchequer of the UK, and it's even more mind boggling when said chancellor putting taxes up during a cost of living crisis.

He's absolutely cooked as Chancellor and he'll never be PM now.

Agree 100% people can't expect him to give up his wifes citizenship, but he will have to give up his ambitions of holding one of the 4 great offices of state.
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There’s still a possibility whilst people stick up for him and his wife. They don’t know what they are talking about, but people are only having a go at him because he’s their beloved Tory poster boy.

Anyway, must dash, must go and demonstrate about how low Asda’s prices are, because if I don’t, that shows that I’m just the same as the Sunak’s apparently.
 
Chris in London said:
We both know that you have no idea what impact residence has on what taxes you pay, no idea what impact nationality has on what taxes you pay and no idea what impact domicile has on what taxes you pay, but you have waded in making a series of points that are wrong.

you’re welcome.
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Having lived and worked abroad myself I’ve got some idea of the complexities of maintaining a life in both countries. Which points are wrong exactly? I don’t think anyone is saying she has broken the law by paying Indian tax on Indian income that remains in India.
 
Del_Bosque said:
Well the story is now developing into they had Green cards during his first year as chancellor, so in theory they must have been paying US tax on international earnings.

However the most likely thing is she's been funnelling her money off to a tax haven, as do most non-doms. Something that was dodged in their statement to the press.

I don't think the debate here should be whether non-dom status is right or wrong to exist, that's far too wide and far reaching a subject.

It's that the associated benefits of being in a marriage with a globe trotting international non-dom is 100% incompatible with the office of Chancellor of the Exchequer of the UK, and it's even more mind boggling when said chancellor putting taxes up during a cost of living crisis.

He's absolutely cooked as Chancellor and he'll never be PM now.

Agree 100% people can't expect him to give up his wifes citizenship, but he will have to give up his ambitions of holding one of the 4 great offices of state.
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I don’t doubt she (like most wealthy people) has been smart with what taxes she pays within the laws of the land - and there is absolutely a conversation to be had about governments allowing certain loopholes that exploit the spirit of the law if not the law itself.

Trouble is the system is too complicated and governments are always playing catch-up. Identifying the problem is much much easier than identifying the solution. All I’ve ever heard is pie in the sky ideas or taxing the easy pickings more - I don’t have the answers either beyond ripping the whole thing up and starting again. Some of the stuff being done on a global level definitely appear steps in the right direction.
 
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