So I'm guessing all those UK citizens currently working in the Middle East because the UK's tax rates are just *too* high, will now be expecting the British state to step in to evacuate them if the war continues to escalate?
Perhaps they should have thought of that before they decided paying tax was only for dummies?
@ChrisMayLA6 This happens with 🇨🇦 as well, flying citizens home from war zones.
I think it is a good political selling point for a tax against global net wealth on 🇨🇦 citizens, regardless of residency.
(Offset, of course, in the usual tax treaty ways against wealth tax paid in other jurisdictions such as 🇨🇭).
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@ChrisMayLA6 Have been thinking this since the reports came out.
Sounds harsh, but it should be a case of “you’ve left, get over it”.
Yes, the holiday makers are tax payers here & should be repatriated if requested/needed.... those out there on their tax free salaries moaning about the British state, not so much
The UK could be like the US and insist they file tax returns and then refuse to rescue them for free when things go bad. I'm thankful they are not.
All this does is punish migrants/expats for having the audacity to live in another country. It punishes the children of migrants.
Most are not wealthy jet-setters. Most pay local taxes for where they live.
People who move overseas to live with spouses, who teach, study, research, or even just to live overseas.
The Middle East is not all tax havens and resorts.
The thing is, why did they go to work there... and what did they think would be the response if they were no longer paying taxes in the UK. Sure, object to the high levels, but then ti expect to be airlifted out (if that is what they *do* expect) is ironic at the very least....
Where is ”there”? The Middle East isn't just Abu Dhabi or the UAE.
fair comment.... 'there' is a wider area & would inlace a lot of indentured & other exploited labour.... but for UK citizens that's less an issue (I think)
Plenty of people go to countries like Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, Yemen and even Iraq and Iran to teach, to provide aid and medical care, to be with family, for academic research. None of this is to dodge taxes.
Focusing on people who move to the UAE to party and pay no taxes is the parallel to focusing on people who come to the UK to take jobs and live on the dole. It gets people angry.
yes, this point has been made in the timeline quite a lot.... but I did say those who had moved to avoid taxes... implicitly avoiding those you mention. Which is perhaps a partial defence?
Similar energy to the self employed that were "tax efficient" by paying themselves minimal salary and big dividends complaining that furlough during the pandemic was then based on their fake salary?
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