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Farage plans to charge non-doms £250,000 fee which will be given to poor

23 Jun 2025 3 minute read
Reform UK leader, Nigel Farage, Photo Maja Smiejkowska/PA Wire

Reform UK would reinstate non-dom status for wealthy individuals for a £250,000 fee which would be given to Britain’s poorest workers, Nigel Farage has announced.

On Monday, the party leader and MP for Clacton will reveal the policy which he said would “encourage the return of wealth and talent to the United Kingdom”, according to the Telegraph.

The Labour Government abolished the non-dom tax status in April, which is where UK residents whose permanent home or domicile for tax purposes is outside the UK.

Last year, former Conservative chancellor Jeremy Hunt revealed plans to scrap the tax status before successor Rachel Reeves sped up the process.

Remittance regime

Reform UK’s policy would mean “every high-net-worth newcoming (or returning leaver)” would pay a £250,000 one-off fee “in return for a stable, indefinite remittance-style regime on offshore income and a 20-year inheritance-tax shield”, Mr Farage wrote in an article for the Telegraph.

All of this fee would be given to Britain’s lowest-paid full-time workers through an automatic tax-free dividend via HMRC, the party leader added.

In response, Labour said the policy was a “golden ticket for foreign billionaires to avoid the tax they owe in this country”.

Mr Farage wrote: “Our policy is simple – Britain must be a place where success is celebrated, not punished with excessive taxes, crippling energy costs, or punitive inheritance levies.

“We will actively encourage the return of wealth and talent to the United Kingdom, on the clear condition that those who come here deliver immediate, visible benefits to our workers.”

Cash bonus

The plan would mean around 2.5 million “hard-working Britons” would receive an “annual cash bonus”, the Reform UK leader claimed.

He added: “Our policy is not a ‘golden visa’ or a backdoor to citizenship.

“It is a one-time flat tax paid by newcomers in exchange for the certainty of a favourable tax status.

“Individuals will still be liable for all standard UK taxes on UK-sourced income, property and spending.

“But they won’t be taxed on offshore income and gains for the duration of their agreed status.”

A Labour spokesperson said: “Nigel Farage can brand this whatever he wants – the reality is his first proper policy is a golden ticket for foreign billionaires to avoid the tax they owe in this country.

“As ever with Reform, the devil is in the detail.

“This giveaway would reduce revenues raised from the rich that would have to be made up elsewhere – through tax hikes on working families or through Farage’s promise to charge them to use the NHS.”


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Jeff
Jeff
15 days ago

Only its a con.
Someone who claimed to be for the working person, looking after billionaire’s. And trump is also doing this so what are the odds…nige has never been good at economics. See Brexit.

https://taxpolicy.org.uk/2025/06/23/britannia-card-tax-cost-uk/

Y Cymro
Y Cymro
15 days ago

And also his holiness Farage will instruct any Reform UK Government to seed the clouds with gold dust taken from the Bank of England vaults, which then will rain down on those poor communities growing their own magic money trees ending poverty. And if you believe that BS will likely vote for a man whose hero was Margaret Thatcher , the very woman whose Draconian policies he supported as a member of the Tory party devastated communities throughout Wales.

Amir
Amir
15 days ago

It’s a good policy to keep out all the rich billionaires of non UK origin, but does not nothing for existing residential billionaires. I wonder why?

Fi yn unig
Fi yn unig
15 days ago

I didn’t know he had an HGV licence but here he comes driving his snake oil tanker blowing its’ belching smoke up the backsides of the easily duped. His adviser, Mr Anderson, will tell him that there is no point in giving money to those who clearly don’t want it or they’d already have it and they have now learned to feed themselves on 30p a day so if the money actually will be taken off non doms, (not likely), put the money to better use by paying off the debts of Reform UK and the huge losses of GBeebies.

Boris
Boris
15 days ago

How long do his rich friends need to leave the UK for before they can return under this scheme?

robin campbell
robin campbell
15 days ago

I hope this bonus only goes to the ‘deserving’ poor

Fanny Hill
Fanny Hill
15 days ago

The right sort of immigrants? Coming by private yacht rather than a rubber dinghy.

theoriginalmark
theoriginalmark
14 days ago

It’s a scam, HMRC will lose out meaning we lose out, but the idiot Faridge fanboys won’t see or understand this.

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