HMRC data debunks UK non-dom exodus claims. New data from the UK’s HM Revenue & Customs shows that the number of non-doms leaving the UK is in line with or below official forecasts, dispelling claims that recent revenue-boosting tax reforms have triggered a massive non-dom exodus.

by bottish

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  1. > The findings are the latest in a series of reports debunking a widely popular media narrative about a large exodus of millionaires – often conflated with non-doms (people living in the UK with non-domiciled status) – leaving the UK in response to tax policies.

    > So far this year:

    > * A Tax Justice Network report2 published in early June debunked the Henley & Partner’s report behind the millionaire exodus claims, finding several issues ranging from how the report calculates its findings to how it presents its findings.

    > * The Tax Justice Network report also tracked the wide media coverage of the report – consisting of about 11,000 news pieces in 2024 alone, or 30 pieces a day – showing how media reporting often went even further than the claims made in the Henley report, exacerbating an unfounded narrative.

    > * Henley & Partners wrote3 to the Tax Justice Network blaming UK news outlets for deliberately misrepresenting their numbers:
    *“We have never claimed that Labour tax policies were the sole or root cause. If papers such as the Telegraph, Times, Mail, decide to add their own layer on to that, and deliberately exclude from their story our standard reminder to them that these were the Conservatives’ tax changes, then I think your argument is with them not with us.”*

    > * Following the release of the Tax Justice Network’s report, Henley & Partners backtracked on their usage of the term “exodus” in late June.4

    > * A study published in the FT5 in July found that Henley & Partner’s report failed several standard forensic accounting techniques used to detect suspicious patterns in datasets that indicate manually entered or adjusted numbers. The study concluded that the Henley report’s numbers are highly likely to be “fabricated”.

    > * Green New Deal Rising, a movement of young people fighting for climate justice, held a public stunt yesterday6 (13 August 2025) at Henley & Partners London headquarters to call out false media reporting of a millionaire exodus and demand taxes on the superrich.

    > * A Patriotic Millionaires UK poll7 found that 80% of UK millionaires support a wealth tax.

    I particularly liked the second last one, we need more calling out of the nonsense that is pumped out in the media (about all sorts of things).

  2. So what you’re telling us is that newspapers backed by very wealthy persons, told falsehoods about the impact of tax policies ?

    Gasp !

  4. > New data from the UK’s HM Revenue & Customs shows that the number of non-doms leaving the UK is in line with or below official forecasts

    Which one is it, in line or below? What were the official forecasts? were they low to no change then great, did they increase the forecast expecting a higher exodus and that’s what happened then not so great.

  5. Oh.

    So there’s definitely no reason to not raise taxes on billionaires and millionaires then, they still won’t leave.

    Pay up chucklefucks. Time for you to pay your fair share for once.

  6. Tomorrow’s headline reposted 50 times on UK subs:

    “Far more millionaires are leaving the UK than ever before. Top up with Irn Bru and get in to your bunkers because the rich are our critical benefactor overlords, don’t you know, and we’ll all be eating scum from between each others’ toes before the end of the month.”

  7. But. But. Roddy Dunlop said that he and his rich pals would leave Scotland if a small tax increase was implemented on the higher earners and the same would apply to the wealthy. Surely he did not lie? Surely he did not lie **again** after saying he and his rich pals would leave Scotland if the MUP Bill was implemented. And surely he did not lie **again and again** after saying he and his rich pals would leave Scotland if the paper tax Bill was introduced? Oh me. I am so **sure** none of these Unionists would lie. Again.

  8. Would this not become more prevalent in the next year or so

    I believe there is a delay, as most non doms I assume at not PAYE

  9. They weren’t paying tax before if they leave we don’t loose out. If they stay we gain. The fact that they aren’t leaving is great news. 

  10. That’s like 3 fell swoops of debunking popular myths on policies today – school vat, farmers tax and now this

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