Non-domiciled tax laws criticised

News Article - 24 May 2012
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A union leader has called for non-domiciled tax laws to be abolished, over concerns about the number of wealthy people avoiding paying any tax.

Speaking at the TUC's annual Congress, the union's general secretary Brendan Barber said called for the government to tackle the "widespread abuse" of non-domiciled tax breaks.

According to Mr Barber, the government should replace this system with a new test based on residency.

"There is an increasingly widely felt sense that the super-rich floating free is unacceptable," he told the Observer.

Although many people are concerned about the gap between the richest and the poorest of society, Mr Barber said that he was worried about the gap between the "top and the middle".

The union representative's comments follow a recent report by the National Audit Office which found that nearly a third of the UK's 700 largest organisations did not pay corporation tax in 2005-06, the Financial Times reports.

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