Expatriates & the Rich
Should people who live abroad have a right to vote and be considered as citizens? My answer is no! Part of the duties of citizens is to be active members of the community and pay the taxes which their wealth & income would entitle them to. The word entitle is good in this context as we should all want to contribute what we can to the community.
The recent rise in higher rates of tax on those earning over £150,000 to promise to leave the country. If people like Michael Caine and Andrew Lloyd-Webber resent paying tax why do they wish to be citizens of the UK, they are rich enough to leave the country and live anywhere they like and I am sure many countries would welcome them with open arms and offer them citizenship, so why not just go. If they want to stay in the club they should be play by the rules. Another of these so-called citizens is Sean Connery, a sort of honorary Scot, I say honorary Scot since he chooses to live in Switzerland for tax purposes. This does not seem to me to be very loyal but claims to be a Scottish nationalist, I would be ashamed of his support, but then the SNP is keen on Donald Trump.
The USA expects its citizens to pay tax to the USA wherever they live and so should the UK. Peoples feel that they can go and live anywhere in the world, not pay UK taxes and then come back when they feel they want and use all the facilities that those of us who stayed have been paying for for years. If you want to keep your citizenship then you should have to pay UK taxes.
Such ruling should also apply to people who move their companies to tax haven to avoid tax, that great British entrepreneur who has moved his companies to some off-shore island in order to reduce tax. In the meantime people suffer on his Virgin train lines.
The recent rise in higher rates of tax on those earning over £150,000 to promise to leave the country. If people like Michael Caine and Andrew Lloyd-Webber resent paying tax why do they wish to be citizens of the UK, they are rich enough to leave the country and live anywhere they like and I am sure many countries would welcome them with open arms and offer them citizenship, so why not just go. If they want to stay in the club they should be play by the rules. Another of these so-called citizens is Sean Connery, a sort of honorary Scot, I say honorary Scot since he chooses to live in Switzerland for tax purposes. This does not seem to me to be very loyal but claims to be a Scottish nationalist, I would be ashamed of his support, but then the SNP is keen on Donald Trump.
The USA expects its citizens to pay tax to the USA wherever they live and so should the UK. Peoples feel that they can go and live anywhere in the world, not pay UK taxes and then come back when they feel they want and use all the facilities that those of us who stayed have been paying for for years. If you want to keep your citizenship then you should have to pay UK taxes.
Such ruling should also apply to people who move their companies to tax haven to avoid tax, that great British entrepreneur who has moved his companies to some off-shore island in order to reduce tax. In the meantime people suffer on his Virgin train lines.
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