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London’s status threatened by non-dom policy
Chancellor Alistair Darling has been forced to stage a climb-down over his proposal to tax non-domiciled, or ‘non-doms’, resident in the UK for more than seven years £30,000, after many of the estimated 116,000 foreign residents who would have been affected threatened to leave the UK capital.
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Darling’s new tax rule for foreign residents
The Government will make major changes to the taxation of UK resident non-UK domicillaries with effect from 6 April 2008.
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Proposed Tory tax could hurt relocatees
Short-term international commuters could be hit by a proposed Conservative tax on air travel. Tory leader David Cameron recently announced plans for a higher rate of aviation tax for anyone who makes more than one short-haul flight a year.
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Articles

“Tax doesn’t have to be taxing”
Armed with the right information, taxation needn’t be a nightmare, as tax expert Phil Smith explains.
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The UK Tax System
Even in your country of origin, taxes can be a bit of a mystery – the rules are constantly changing, whose responsibility are they and new ones are always cropping up. In the UK it’s fairly clear cut (at the moment) so we focus on national insurance, VAT and council tax.
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