General British politics discussion thread

It is just more fuel for the fire if the National Insurance rises go ahead.

That last line says it all about how you view people complaining about this: "How dare the lower orders question the way their betters pay tax!" This is either a brilliant parody or a conplete lost cause.

That elitism isn't going to win any votes. Or at least it shouldn't.

That's not what tax domicile means - you're referring to the rules on Tax residency.

Tax domicile relates to your permanent home - so the question here is whether she maintains a home outside of the UK (i.e. in India) and whether she genuinely plans to permanently return to that home country in the near to medium term future.

I've never been much of a fan of Government's claiming the right to tax incomes that are earned abroad and never remitted into the country claiming the taxes. Put it this way - Patrick Collison lives in California and pays US taxes on whatever incomes he earns from Stripe over there.

If Collison decided to purchase a pub in Limerick, should the US Government automatically have the right to tax any income Collison receives from that - even if the money never leaves Ireland?

I don't like Sunak, or much of what I've heard about his wife either, but the "tax-dodging" stuff isn't the stick I'd be choosing to criticise them for.

US is even more fun. Yer man Collison would owe state income tax to Ca for money earned overseas, if he kept a California residence (which he does.) California's notorious for chasing down every penny of tax revenue so I imagine it's being paid.

Federal tax on income earned overseas is very much a thing in the US. It is interesting that you can buy your way out of that in the UK if you pay for the privilege, but I think that might be an oversimplification of how it works, I only know what's been described in this thread.

And, is there any doubt as to what a kip the UK is? Would this tax dodge be made available to any Ukrainian refugees that succeed in getting visas to stay in the UK? If they're in the UK long enough and declare income from both countries, will they be able to claim 'non domiciled?'

I find it remarkable that there are always people who will swoop in to defend billionaires when they are shown up to be doing things like this that, although are not illegal (which is a whole different story), are morally dubious.

I'm not sure if they do it because

1. They hold the deluded belief that they too will someday be super wealthy (as is often the case with Americans who stan the super wealthy)
2. They see themselves as libertarians who find the idea of taxation in general as problematic and admire the billionaires for getting one over on the taxman
3. It's ok....as long as it's "their" side who are doing it.

It's bad enough that they're doing it in the first place. The fact that there are lickspittles out there eager to tell everyone that it's actually good and proper is frankly, nauseating.

Correct. UK xenophobia as policy of and legislation passed by the government of the UK.

I object to imperialism via tax systems - especially when it results in double taxation. If an Indian citizen is earning income in India, from an Indian business, paying Indian income taxes on that income, and never moves a penny of the income to the UK, then there's no justification on the UK trying to grab a second slice of taxes from that same income.

It's amazing the amount of individuals who see punitive double taxation as an outlet for their bitterness - maybe it's how they like to work out their own personal failings in life.