Rachel Reeves erwägt eine Steuer von 20 % auf das Vermögen von Personen, die sich entscheiden, das Vereinigte Königreich zu verlassen
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/nov/01/rachel-reeves-considers-20-tax-on-assets-of-people-deciding-to-leave-uk?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
Von topotaul
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Getting kinda bored of every budget steadily increasingly taxes in all sorts of creative and annoying ways.
Labour over-gauges police’s on social media to see if it’s popular or not. Yes, tax the wealth. Do it. Just dont tax workers like promised.
“The Treasury has drawn up plans for a “settling-up charge” on assets; a move that would bring the UK into line with most other G7 nations and raise a predicted £2bn for the public coffers, according to the Times.”
No problem with this. Maybe go further than 20%
Paid bots complaining about actions that hit those who exploited the system
It’s just a barrage of reaction testing doom leaks to the media before the actual rogering happens. Foreplay if you will.
Maybe it’ll soften the blow of the actual rogering, who knows.
The issue is this can force you to realise gains in order to pay the tax. Germany has similar problems with this, where it mostly hurts small business owners.
Every month they’re testing the waters with a new tax idea, it’s getting boring. Maybe they should get on with it and actually do something to raise money (preferably from the rich please) and inject some life into our economy.
Borrowing against assets above a certain level should be taxed as income. If you’re a multi-millionaire and you live off the money you borrow against assets, the amount borrowed should be taxed as income.
Plus also concentrate turning VAT back into an actual luxury tax.
They could just… make it so that people don’t want to leave. Theyre out of ideas.
Make it 50% if they’re taking their wealth abroad and not coming back…👍
Wouldn’t that stop people and businesses coming to the country? Knowing you have to pay up to leave again?
There’s not a huge amount left to squeeze in taxes, you cannot just raise a tax and not account for the change in behaviour. The data around the last change to Capital Gains allowance has shown this (tax free allowance went down -> government revenue from CGT went down).
Speaking of CGT and as an example, the government raised £4 billion in 2012 from CGT, compared with £17 billion in 2022. The notion that there’s not enough tax revenue is just not true, a lack of smart leadership to spend it, is.
A 20% exit tax is a shot in the foot. Why on earth would you set up a business in the UK or invest in the UK knowing you’re going to be hit 20% on the way out when there are numerous better countries that don’t? You may get some tax revenue for a few years, but it will very quickly dry up.
I don’t know why „reduce spending on pensions, welfare, asylum, etc“ is never an option? The government has plenty of revenue, the population aren’t undertaxed, the government is just incapable of spending it properly.
Wouldn’t that stop people and businesses coming to the country? Knowing you have to pay up to leave again?
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Make it 100% and the tax paperwork is just that image of Mr Burns saying“Don’t forget you’re here forever“
Judge a country by how it put up walls to keep their countrymen in and stop them escaping
I always associated an „exit tax“ with the Nazi’s doing this to the Jews before WW2. I didn’t realise other countries did something similar now. I am surprised.
I am not automatically against it though, but it doesn’t really seem a British thing to do..
If they do this it needs to be implemented ASAP so lots of wealthy don’t make plans to leave between announcement and practice. Feels a bit ignorant to ask – but don’t some measures need to go via Parliament first though?
A good idea and also – we need to raise revenue somehow.
The sooner they just increase income tax the better.
They’re just testing the headline to see how markets react
How do you know they’re leaving the UK until they’ve actually gone?
Only 20%? For billionaires (not regular people moving overseas for work or whatnot) it should be 100%. You can leave if you’re trying to avoid tax, but you can’t take a single UK asset you own with you.
This inspires negative confidence in this government and the future of this country.
Jesus wept
Bad idea, we’re already bleeding millionaires and billionaires leaving because of Brexit and non-domicile tax; this will only keep them from coming and those that are still here will hasten their exit.
Good. It’s about time a government actually did something about these „If you tax us, we’ll leave the country“ threats by people who’ve been hoarding wealth and avoiding paying their fair share
They will just not own anything. And get a loan and give her the finger as they walk by her window
Could someone who knows about economics or not tell me if this is a good thing?
I fear I have been tempted too much towards the ideas of Henry George (Blame Rory Sutherland) and I don’t know enough about any of this stuff to decide whether it’s right or not.
I applaud any attempt that increases tax on the wealthy.
Tax law is very complicated and pursuing people moving their wealth abroad is worth some effort.
We also need to work much harder at large companies avoiding tax by registering in different countries but operating profitably here.
But if the rich are not leaving, why is this measure needed?
This seems to have been getting a lot more support than I thought
It seems that most people don’t understand this or are just going off about the clickbait headline.
You do not pay CGT on your home. You do pay CGT on second homes and investments, but you are taxed on the gains, not the total worth.
This revision closes a loophole whereby someone could take up domicile in another country and dispose of business assets without paying tax. On the gains.
It’s not a major new sweeping tax, it just brings our tax system inline with other G7 nations.