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HMRC puts 200 billionaires on UK tax crackdown hitlist (www.theguardian.com)
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The UK’s tax authority is assigning dedicated “customer compliance managers” to more than 200 billionaires as part of a crackdown meant to raise £500m for the public purse.

HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) said it had for the first time compiled a list of billionaires who are required to pay tax in the UK, regardless of whether they formally live in the country, to tackle a “wealthy tax gap” caused by those who do not pay what they ought.

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[–] 4 points 3 days ago

200 billionaires to raise 0.5b in dodged taxes.
Each billionaire is, at most, going to see a 0.25% hit.

If you earned £60k a year (a very decent wage), thats another £150 a year, £13 a month. Except that £13 (per month: a couple pints, takeout for 1 peson) is able to buy you a house (~£200k) .

1 billion is an EGREGIOUS amount of money.
The difference between 1 million and 1 billion is about 1 billion.
Like if you had £1,000 and you were able to instantly double it: you are still "about 1 million away from being a millionaire".
If you had £1,000,000 (1 million), and you were able to instantly double it: you are still "about 1 billion away from being a billionaire".

Fuck all billionaires. Tax them more.
Make it PAINFUL to go above £250M in total assets.

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