Reeves must provide ‘more stable’ tax policy, finance bosses say May 20, 2025 Rachel Reeves is facing pressure to provide a “clearer, more stable tax environment,” when she delivers her growth strategy in July. The Chancellor is once again in the spotlight after a damning report from finance bosses indicated the industry was prepped to support growth ambitions, but structural barriers were holding them back. Top players in [...]
Non-dom exodus could cost the Treasury £12.2bn May 6, 2025 Chancellor Rachel Reeves’ decision to remove tax exemptions for non-doms could lead to “billions” in losses from the public purse, new research has suggested, in a blow to the Treasury’s fiscal plans. Reeves followed through with manifesto pledges by removing tax exemptions from mega-rich non-domiciled individuals at last year’s Autumn Budget, something the Office for [...]
The non-dom exodus is harming London’s housing market May 2, 2025 Punitive taxes and onerous regulation on landlords are leading the wealthy to sell up and leave London – with knock-on effects at all levels of the housing market, says James Evans As CityAM’s Editor-in-Chief recently pointed out, ‘The UK only has around 70,000 non-doms, and that number is falling fast. More than 11,000 millionaires, [...]
Aston Villa’s non-dom owner quit UK due to ‘Tory incompetence’ April 21, 2025 The non-dom co-owner of Aston Villa football club has blamed the Conservative party’s mismanagement of the economy for his decision to leave the UK earlier this year. Nassef Sawiris, a chemicals magnate who is Egypt’s richest man, became one of the most high profile ultra high net worth individuals to avoid the government’s crackdown on [...]
A decade of departures: Moscow only city with worse millionaire exodus than London April 9, 2025 If Knight Frank’s inaugural Global Cities survey was anything to go by, London had the world at its feet in 2013. Respondents to the property giant’s annual poll of global wealth advisers declared the UK capital—not Singapore, Geneva, or any of America’s embarrassment of global cities—the ‘most important city in the world’ to their ultra-high-net-worth [...]
Scrapping non-doms could cost UK up to £111bn by 2035, ASI think tank claims April 5, 2025 Scrapping the non-doms tax status could cost the UK up to £111bn by 2035, the Adam Smith Institute (ASI) is warning. The UK could also lose some 44,000 jobs by 2030 if the government enacts its plans to abolish the scheme, the free-market group has suggested. These figures are based on just over half [11,050] [...]
67 per cent tax rate will drive the last non-doms away from Britain April 3, 2025 The Finance Bill will create a punitive and arbitrary set of rules for non-doms, under which they could end up paying exorbitant levels of tax, says James Lawson This year’s Spring Statement was a pretty no-nonsense affair – and with good reason. As the war in Ukraine rages on, Trump’s tariffs begin to bite and [...]
London is world’s fourth-most dynamic city April 1, 2025 London is in the top five cities for companies to lay down roots, a fresh study has found, despite the UK suffering years of economic stagnation and reports of an exodus of its wealthiest and high-skilled residents. According to Savills’ inaugural corporate dynamic wealth index, London is the fourth-best location in the world for major [...]
Labour’s non-dom tax raid forces Castle-owning fintech founder out of the UK February 14, 2025 The owner of a £6m castle in Kent would have set up a credit fintech employing dozens of UK workers had the reforms to the non-dom status made by “Reckless Reeves” not meant she could “no longer stay in the UK”. Reality television star Ann Kaplan Mulholland has claimed non-dom status with her cosmetic surgeon [...]
More than 10,000 millionaires have left Britain in a year – this is where they’re all going January 31, 2025 More than 10,000 millionaires left Britain last year, partly to avoid higher taxes – with many quitting for more glamorous destinations. In total Britain lost a net 10,800 millionaires in 2024, according to the New World Wealth (NWW) analytics firm, more than any other country except China. That is a rise of 157 per cent [...]