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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Rupert Neate Wealth correspondent

‘Petrified’ non-doms poised to flee UK over Labour’s tax plans, say experts

Luxury cars in Mayfair
There were 68,800 non-doms in the UK in 2021-22, according to the latest available HMRC data. Photograph: Marek Slusarczyk/Alamy

“People are jumping on planes right now and leaving,” said Nimesh Shah, the chief executive of Blick Rothenberg, an accountancy firm that specialises in advising very rich “non-doms” on their tax affairs. “I am not being dramatic, they are leaving right now.”

Shah said his clients – some of the richest people in the country – were “petrified” of plans to abolish the “non-domicile” regime, through which for the past 225 years wealthy people have been able to live in the UK and not pay tax on their overseas income.

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