Richard Tice and Isobel Oakshott move to Dubai

[morqthana]

On an unrelated note Kieth and Rachel need to sort out tax on ex pats, there is no sensible case for not fully taxing ex pats with businesses in the UK or other links like use of the health service.

Simple.

Don't allow them. If you're a UK citizen you are registered for tax in the UK, and you pay tax on your income wherever you earn it.

Don't want to pay tax in the UK? No problem - find somewhere else to be a citizen of and hand back your UK one. Sorted.

 

[morqthana]

If you are resident in the Uk you pay taxes here and on foreign income. That shouldn't change because you decide to leave the country to save tax, but want the benefit of remaining a British citizen domiciled here.

 

[morqthana]

problem then is that high rate tax payers no longer contribute to our coffers

That's OK as long as they no longer have a British passport.

 

[morqthana]

Over 1m have left.

How many would do so if it meant they could never return except on the same basis that every other non-UK citizen in the world may enter the UK?

 

[morqthana]

Why is that? If a million disgruntled Tories are fleeing the UK with their wealth, that's a pretty big number to claim, wouldn't you say?

1M fewer Tory voters. Permanently.

 

[morqthana]

If you were in the top 1% of earners. Would you fancy living 2-3 years overseas and save 1/2 a million in tax?

Would you fancy living the rest of your life overseas as a citizen of another country?

 

[King Billy]

1M fewer Tory voters. Permanently.

They can continue to vote for something like 15 years after having no UK address.
Their MP is the MP at their last known address.

 

[morqthana]

Most leave for a few years to build a “pension” with the view to come back after.

Then their view needs to change to leaving for ever, never coming back.

 

[morqthana]

I live in the U.K. I tolerate the taxes I have to pay (just). It wouldn’t take much for me to reconsider.

Where would you like to become a citizen of, assuming they'd have you?

 

[morqthana]

They can continue to vote for something like 15 years after having no UK address.

Not if they are no longer UK citizens.

 

[morqthana]

No, Don't be so pathetically bloody stupid. They are not spongers. They are our own people in need of help.

Unless the help they need is having a car...

 

[morqthana]

So 1m+ brits who could pay U.K. taxes are not paying U.K. taxes.

Make them non-Brits, and they can join the other 8 billion-odd people also not paying UK taxes.

 

[Mottie]

Someone was having trouble sleeping last night.

 

[motorbiking]

Someone was having trouble sleeping last night.

He certainly took a long time to consider his reply. This thread was over a year old.

 

[Mottie]

He certainly took a long time to consider his reply. This thread was over a year old.

JohnD resurrected the thread to have a gloat that someone he thought had moved permanently to Dubai was in a spot of bother. Little things please little minds and all that…