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House of Lords (Members’ Taxation Status) Bill [HL]

My Lords, as a non-domicile, I must correct many of the statements the noble Lord, Lord Goodhart, has just made. If you have lived in this country for more than a certain number of years, you are classified as ““ordinarily resident”” here, but to lose your domicile of origin is far from simple. His comments about the basis for taxation, particularly in terms of income, are quite wrong. The remittance basis was cancelled by the Treasury from April 2008, and now people pay tax on a worldwide income of £30,000, or whichever is greater, whether or not they remit their money.