#TaxtheRich pops up all over Twitter and the internet. Sounds easy, but actually no easier than trying to regulate crypto-currencies or tax Twitter itself. They’ll always be one step ahead of the civil servants and legislators trying to collect, and can afford better lawyers accountants and yachts. Non-Dom status works if you can afford to live somewhere you weren’t born (and/or afford to pay to be allowed to live there) and organise your money accordingly. The cost of organising your money accordingly is probably several times what most of us earn in a year. And it will, alas, ever be thus.
“IHT to be ‘battleground policy’ in general election as receipts continue to grow”
Just when you thought Inheritance Tax was to become yesterday’s news, it’s back as, apparently and potentially, a ‘battleground policy’ as the election looms.