Not exact matches
The row over Tory donor Michael Ashcroft's
tax status has prompted Labour's longstanding party donor Swraj Paul to announce his decision to end his «
non-dom»
status.
Furthermore, the proposition that Miliband was running on a particularly left wing platform is laughable, unless a
tax on houses over # 2 million or the end of
non-dom status are now considered Stalinist.
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The national living wage, restrictions on
non-dom status and cutting
tax relief for buy - to - let landlords were all attempts to cast the Tories as the workers» party
He has clarified his
tax status, saying he is a
non-dom.
It has also been highlighted that, as Chancellor, Osborne failed to tackle the advantageous
tax status for so - called
non-doms, which Lebedev is understood to benefit from, while Lebedev's paper strongly supported the Conservative Party in the 2015 general election and the Conservatives» candidate Zac Goldsmith in the 2016 London mayoral election.
The billionaire described how he had renegotiated an undertaking he gave as a condition of his peerage to become a full British resident to allow him to retain his
non-dom status and avoid paying
tax on his substantial international earnings.
Tax experts such as Professor Anne Redston were publicly pointing out that if Ashcroft achieved non-dom status, he would still be able to get away with paying little or no UK t
Tax experts such as Professor Anne Redston were publicly pointing out that if Ashcroft achieved
non-dom status, he would still be able to get away with paying little or no UK
taxtax.
Even so, it seems to have taken an imminent Freedom of Information disclosure about his
tax status to persuade him to do something that he should sensibly have done a decade ago and reveal his
non-dom status.
Questions are being asked about how the Tory high command allowed Zac Goldsmith, the prominent green campaigner and Tory candidate for Richmond Park, to keep his
tax status as a non-domicile when the party was committed to a crackdown on «
non-doms».
Ashcroft's
non-dom status means the billionaire has been paying less in
tax than someone registered as living in the UK permanently.
«And that phrase is very significant in
tax law because it means in my view, on the advice that I've had, that he can not avail himself of
non-dom status.
The Tories would pay for the cut by introducing an annual charge on those who apply for «
non-dom»
tax status.
The disclosure that one of the most senior figures in the Tory leadership at the time had reason to believe Ashcroft was a
non-dom will raise questions about the way in which successive Conservative leaders have dealt with questions about the peer's
tax status over the past decade.
We are now not talking just about Ashcroft's
non-dom status, but about systematic
tax avoidance in funding Conservative party activities such as polling.
The Tories have been on the defensive over their multi-millionaire deputy chairman after he admitted earlier this month that he is a
non-dom — a
status which means that he does not pay UK
tax on his overseas income.