HN filter must have chopped the "Thousands" off, should be fixed.

Yeah, chasing away net tax contributors is a major policy win. /s

tax base is narrow the middle class is gonna get squeezed even more to make up the difference

> That means their official home for tax purposes was never the UK.

They were still paying taxes on any UK income.

> It also means the tax difference of them leaving is near zero surely?

Only if you assume they didn't pay any VAT.

That's what I'm wondering. Hasn't this loophole been closed yet, or is that just what's happened? I can't read the article or archive.is, but if you're not domiciled in the UK for tax purposes then haven't you already "left" the UK in some sense?

Now we just need to deal with all the overseas territories and their tax arrangements. Do those count as "in the UK"? I believe not. But they benefit from the UK defense umbrella.