Wealth exodus ramps up as bosses quit UK August 6, 2025 A wave of company directors have left the UK since the government unveiled a host of punitive tax rises on the wealthy at its maiden Budget last autumn, exacerbating fears that a wealth exodus of Britain’s most affluent residents is afoot. According to an analysis of Companies House data, 3,790 company directors removed Britain as [...]
Reeves’ non-dom crackdown is unwittingly driving rich Brits away too August 4, 2025 The hordes of wealthy foreigners leaving Britain to escape the government’s non-dom crackdown are being joined by high-net-worth Brits capitalising on an arcane element of the policy that has made it easier for them to avoid paying inheritance tax (IHT). Several wealth advisers and tax lawyers have reported a “second wave of interest” from middle-aged [...]
UK should introduce its own ‘Trump card’ to woo back the wealthy August 1, 2025 To address the UK’s fiscal challenges and reverse capital flight, Rachel Reeves’ government should implement creative, pro-investment policies, such as reforming non-dom rules and reintroducing an investor visa, rather than pursuing punitive tax measures, says Brandon Lewis Rachel Reeves’ recent Mansion House speech was full of assurances that she would neither bend nor break in [...]
It’s not the rich who fill the gaps when non-doms leave Britain – it’s you July 30, 2025 16,000 high-net-worth individuals are set to leave Britain this year, taking with them jobs, investment and growth. Here’s how we win them back… We talk a lot about wealth in Britain. We just don’t talk enough about what happens when it walks out the door. Because it’s happening. And faster than anyone wants to admit. [...]
Super-prime sales plunge again July 28, 2025 The continued rise in wealthy residents leaving Britain has caused super-prime property sales in London to plunge by over £100m this year, according to a fresh study that brings the woes afoot at the upper end of London real estate into even sharper relief. During the first half of this year, the total value of [...]
Here’s what private equity and venture capital need from Rachel Reeves July 25, 2025 Changes to carried interest, non-doms and wealth tax rumours are putting investors under pressure. Time for Rachel Reeves to adopt a more pragmatic, pro-growth approach, says Michael Moore In her October Party Conference speech, the Chancellor Rachel Reeves declared that ‘If growth is the challenge, investment is the solution’. She is right. The Chancellor has [...]
Labour’s war on business is a gift to Nigel Farage July 22, 2025 Labour’s paralysis is driving business away from Britain and paving a path to power for Nigel Farage and Reform, says Alexander Temerko The government of Keir Starmer has internalised a culture of hesitation so completely that inaction is no longer perceived as a flaw, but as a mode of governance. Over the past year, a [...]
A silver lining for non-doms? July 21, 2025 Despite damning headlines in recent weeks about changes to the foreign chargeable gains regime, the outlook should not be considered entirely bleak, says Clare Pooley From 6 April 2025, a new foreign income and foreign chargeable gains (‘FIG’) regime was introduced for internationally mobile individuals, replacing the remittance basis regime historically available to non-UK domiciled [...]
Non-dom tax take jumped to £12bn before Labour crackdown July 17, 2025 The overall tax take from wealthy foreigners who once claimed the now obsolete non-dom status rose to £12bn the year before Labour and the Conservatives announced their respective crackdowns against the regime. Data from HMRC released on Thursday showed the amount of capital gains tax, income tax and national insurance contributions paid by the cohort [...]
Is it high time to buy in super-prime London? July 15, 2025 London’s super-prime market has been suffering from a glut of supply in the wake of damaging decision-making from successive governments. Ali Lyon asks, is the tide beginning to turn? To take a walk down Mayfair’s historic Upper Grosvenor Street is to be confronted by a quiet, but dramatic, changing-of-the-guard afoot in one of London’s most [...]