Using a Humble Address motion during its Opposition Day Debate on
Tuesday 31 January, Labour will force a vote calling on the
government to publish details within a month (by 28 February) of
whether it even considered scrapping non-dom status ahead of the
most recent Autumn Statement – as the party ramp up pressure for
the Tories to include it in the upcoming Budget.
The party point to the Chancellor telling the Treasury Select
Committee on 23rd November - the week after the Autumn
Statement - that he has asked the Treasury 'to look into it [non
dom status]', urging the government to act on this 200 year old
tax break.
Against the backdrop of the highest tax burden in 70 years on
working people in the midst of a cost of living crisis, and as
criticism around the government’s handling on transparency and
fairness on tax continues to grow in the light of the Zahawi
scandal, Labour are calling for urgent clarity on this matter and
for government action.
Labour have long criticised the government’s repeated failure to
close the non-dom loophole – a tax break that allows some people
with large personal wealth and overseas earnings to get out of
paying their fair share of tax. The party have said would use
some of the money from the scrapped loophole to massively expand
the NHS workforce and put in place Breakfast Clubs at every
primary school in England.
The party has previously published research which they re-release
today revealing three Tory seats where every tenth person has
claimed non-dom status at some point.
The analysis shows how 268 out of 650 constituencies have 100 or
more people claiming non-dom status, and how in the three Tory
seats of Cities of London and Westminster; Kensington; and
Chelsea and Fulham almost every tenth person has claimed non-dom
status at some point.
Speaking ahead of the Debate , Labour’s Shadow Financial
Secretary, said:
“If you work here and make your life here, you should pay your
taxes here. That applies to Tory government ministers as much as
it does to everyone else.
“That’s why Labour will abolish the non-dom tax loophole. It’s
outdated and unfair.
“We will use that money to pay for one of the biggest expansions
of our NHS workforce in history, and to introduce breakfast clubs
at every primary school in England.
“It's outrageous that while working people are paying their taxes
the Prime Minister and Chancellor have been turning a blind eye
to those who use offshore trusts for tax purposes as well as
refusing to abolish non dom tax status.
“Labour will clear up thirteen years of sleaze, abolish non dom
status, and provide the transparency that the British people
deserve.”
Ends
Notes
- Labour’s draft motion for the
Opposition Day Debate is as follows: That there be laid
before this House, no later than 28 February 2023, a copy of
the Treasury analysis related to the effect of abolition of the
non domicile tax status on the public revenue referred to by the
Chancellor of the Exchequer in evidence to the Treasury Committee
on 23 November 2022 together with any other document or analysis
relating to that matter prepared for the Chancellor’s
consideration since 14 October 2022.
- Quote from Treasury Select
Committee on 23rd November 2022: Q457 : “Chancellor, in
advance of your autumn statement you said that those with the
broadest shoulders would bear the heaviest burden. We on this
side—including, I hope, Andrea—would agree with that. I have
searched high and low through your statement, but I cannot seem
to find the section on those with the broadest shoulders of
all, the non-doms. How much would closing the tax loophole for
the super-rich raise for the public purse?” : I have asked the
Treasury to look into that.” https://committees.parliament.uk/oralevidence/11933/pdf/
- In the latest HMRC data referring
to the tax year ending 2021 there were 68,300 individuals
claiming non-dom status. https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/statistics-on-non-domiciled-taxpayers-in-the-uk/statistical-commentary-on-non-domiciled-taxpayers-in-the-uk--2
- Academics at Warwick and LSE have
analysed the population of non-doms in the UK. Their analysis has
found a total of 238,000 people have ever been non-dom since
1997 https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/economics/research/centres/cage/manage/publications/bn38.2022.pdf
https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/economics/research/centres/cage/manage/publications/bn36.2022.pdf
- As part of this work they have
calculated the share of non-doms in the adult population for
every UK parliamentary constituency, based on 2018 data. This is
available within the spreadsheet at this link on Fig.
12. https://arunadvani.com/data/AdvaniBurgherrSavageSummers_SuperrichMigration_data.xlsx
- Labour has used data on total adult
population from the House of Commons Library, sourced from the
Office of National Statistics, to calculate what this means the
number of non-doms in each constituency is. This data is in the
table below, rounded to the nearest 100. For data protection
reasons the academic research did not include constituencies with
fewer than 100 non-doms.
https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/constituency-statistics-population-by-age/
|
Constituency
|
Number of people who have
been non-dom
|
|
Cities of London and Westminster
|
14,600
|
|
Kensington
|
11,200
|
|
Chelsea and Fulham
|
8,300
|
|
Westminster North
|
6,500
|
|
Hampstead and Kilburn
|
7,100
|
|
Richmond Park
|
4,100
|
|
Islington South and Finsbury
|
4,100
|
|
Wimbledon
|
2,600
|
|
Battersea
|
3,200
|
|
Finchley and Golders Green
|
3,200
|
|
Hammersmith
|
2,800
|
|
Holborn and St Pancras
|
3,900
|
|
Poplar and Limehouse
|
3,700
|
|
Putney
|
2,100
|
|
Esher and Walton
|
2,300
|
|
Ealing Central and Acton
|
2,500
|
|
Brentford and Isleworth
|
2,500
|
|
Bermondsey and Old Southwark
|
2,900
|
|
Runnymede and Weybridge
|
1,900
|
|
Twickenham
|
1,600
|
|
Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner
|
1,300
|
|
Hornsey and Wood Green
|
1,600
|
|
Windsor
|
1,300
|
|
Islington North
|
1,500
|
|
Vauxhall
|
1,500
|
|
Maidenhead
|
1,200
|
|
Harrow East
|
1,200
|
|
Beaconsfield
|
1,200
|
|
Hackney South and Shoreditch
|
1,600
|
|
Bethnal Green and Bow
|
1,700
|
|
Hendon
|
1,500
|
|
Cambridge
|
1,200
|
|
Chipping Barnet
|
1,200
|
|
South West Hertfordshire
|
1,100
|
|
Greenwich and Woolwich
|
1,300
|
|
Woking
|
1,000
|
|
Tooting
|
1,000
|
|
Harrow West
|
1,000
|
|
Oxford West and Abingdon
|
900
|
|
Reading East
|
900
|
|
Sevenoaks
|
800
|
|
Chesham and Amersham
|
700
|
|
Aberdeen South
|
800
|
|
Enfield, Southgate
|
800
|
|
Dulwich and West Norwood
|
900
|
|
Brent North
|
1,000
|
|
Hertsmere
|
700
|
|
Guildford
|
800
|
|
Streatham
|
800
|
|
Mole Valley
|
700
|
|
Wokingham
|
700
|
|
Hackney North and Stoke Newington
|
900
|
|
St Albans
|
700
|
|
Kingston and Surbiton
|
800
|
|
Bromley and Chislehurst
|
600
|
|
South West Surrey
|
700
|
|
Henley
|
600
|
|
Epsom and Ewell
|
700
|
|
Newbury
|
600
|
|
Altrincham and Sale West
|
500
|
|
Lewisham, Deptford
|
700
|
|
Beckenham
|
500
|
|
Spelthorne
|
500
|
|
Sutton and Cheam
|
500
|
|
Hitchin and Harpenden
|
500
|
|
South Cambridgeshire
|
600
|
|
Orpington
|
400
|
|
Reigate
|
500
|
|
Brent Central
|
700
|
|
Croydon Central
|
500
|
|
Croydon South
|
500
|
|
Tatton
|
400
|
|
Milton Keynes North
|
600
|
|
Bristol West
|
700
|
|
Warwick and Leamington
|
400
|
|
Surrey Heath
|
500
|
|
Epping Forest
|
400
|
|
Reading West
|
400
|
|
Eltham
|
400
|
|
Watford
|
500
|
|
Winchester
|
400
|
|
Ilford South
|
500
|
|
Milton Keynes South
|
500
|
|
The Cotswolds
|
400
|
|
Edinburgh North and Leith
|
500
|
|
Uxbridge and South Ruislip
|
400
|
|
Tunbridge Wells
|
400
|
|
Slough
|
500
|
|
Lewisham East
|
400
|
|
Oxford East
|
400
|
|
Ealing North
|
400
|
|
Chichester
|
400
|
|
Feltham and Heston
|
500
|
|
Welwyn Hatfield
|
400
|
|
Bracknell
|
400
|
|
Hove
|
400
|
|
Solihull
|
400
|
|
Hayes and Harlington
|
400
|
|
North East Hampshire
|
300
|
|
Ealing, Southall
|
300
|
|
Basingstoke
|
400
|
|
Chingford and Woodford Green
|
300
|
|
Bath
|
400
|
|
Glasgow Central
|
400
|
|
East Surrey
|
400
|
|
Mid Sussex
|
400
|
|
East Hampshire
|
300
|
|
Wealden
|
400
|
|
Camberwell and Peckham
|
400
|
|
West Ham
|
600
|
|
Brentwood and Ongar
|
300
|
|
West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine
|
300
|
|
Ilford North
|
300
|
|
Tonbridge and Malling
|
300
|
|
Cheltenham
|
300
|
|
Lewisham West and Penge
|
300
|
|
Leyton and Wanstead
|
300
|
|
Horsham
|
300
|
|
Wycombe
|
300
|
|
Aberdeen North
|
300
|
|
Wantage
|
300
|
|
South Swindon
|
300
|
|
Brighton, Pavilion
|
300
|
|
Arundel and South Downs
|
300
|
|
East Ham
|
400
|
|
Witney
|
300
|
|
Birmingham, Ladywood
|
400
|
|
Romsey and Southampton North
|
200
|
|
City of Chester
|
300
|
|
Crawley
|
300
|
|
Edinburgh West
|
300
|
|
Birmingham, Edgbaston
|
300
|
|
South East Cambridgeshire
|
300
|
|
Carshalton and Wallington
|
200
|
|
West Suffolk
|
300
|
|
Norwich South
|
300
|
|
Hertford and Stortford
|
300
|
|
Lewes
|
200
|
|
Edinburgh South West
|
300
|
|
Leeds Central
|
400
|
|
Gordon
|
200
|
|
Stratford-on-Avon
|
200
|
|
Bristol North West
|
200
|
|
Edinburgh South
|
200
|
|
Saffron Walden
|
300
|
|
Brighton, Kemptown
|
200
|
|
Harborough
|
200
|
|
Hemel Hempstead
|
200
|
|
Aldershot
|
200
|
|
Devizes
|
200
|
|
North Swindon
|
200
|
|
Buckingham
|
200
|
|
Ipswich
|
200
|
|
Coventry South
|
300
|
|
Manchester, Withington
|
200
|
|
Cheadle
|
200
|
|
Croydon North
|
300
|
|
Banbury
|
300
|
|
Canterbury
|
300
|
|
Poole
|
200
|
|
North West Hampshire
|
200
|
|
North Wiltshire
|
200
|
|
North East Hertfordshire
|
200
|
|
Kenilworth and Southam
|
200
|
|
New Forest West
|
200
|
|
Leeds North East
|
200
|
|
Salisbury
|
200
|
|
Somerton and Frome
|
200
|
|
Tottenham
|
200
|
|
Aylesbury
|
200
|
|
Walthamstow
|
200
|
|
Bexhill and Battle
|
200
|
|
South Northamptonshire
|
200
|
|
Chelmsford
|
200
|
|
Ashford
|
200
|
|
Sutton Coldfield
|
200
|
|
Belfast South
|
200
|
|
Mitcham and Morden
|
200
|
|
West Dorset
|
200
|
|
Old Bexley and Sidcup
|
100
|
|
Macclesfield
|
200
|
|
Stroud
|
200
|
|
Filton and Bradley Stoke
|
200
|
|
Totnes
|
100
|
|
Dartford
|
200
|
|
Enfield North
|
200
|
|
Chippenham
|
100
|
|
New Forest East
|
100
|
|
Suffolk Coastal
|
200
|
|
North Dorset
|
100
|
|
Southampton, Itchen
|
200
|
|
Wythenshawe and Sale East
|
100
|
|
Maidstone and The Weald
|
200
|
|
Hastings and Rye
|
200
|
|
Harrogate and Knaresborough
|
100
|
|
Central Devon
|
100
|
|
East Devon
|
200
|
|
Broxbourne
|
100
|
|
Hornchurch and Upminster
|
200
|
|
Bournemouth East
|
100
|
|
Glasgow North
|
100
|
|
North Somerset
|
100
|
|
Luton South
|
200
|
|
Bournemouth West
|
100
|
|
South West Wiltshire
|
100
|
|
Meon Valley
|
100
|
|
Meriden
|
100
|
|
Eastbourne
|
200
|
|
Manchester Central
|
200
|
|
Portsmouth South
|
200
|
|
Colchester
|
200
|
|
Basildon and Billericay
|
100
|
|
North East Bedfordshire
|
200
|
|
Huntingdon
|
200
|
|
Edinburgh East
|
200
|
|
Derby North
|
100
|
|
Worthing West
|
100
|
|
Faversham and Mid Kent
|
100
|
|
Stevenage
|
100
|
|
North East Fife
|
100
|
|
Rutland and Melton
|
100
|
|
South Norfolk
|
100
|
|
Cardiff North
|
100
|
|
Mid Bedfordshire
|
100
|
|
Salford and Eccles
|
200
|
|
Cardiff West
|
100
|
|
Newcastle upon Tyne East
|
100
|
|
North West Cambridgeshire
|
200
|
|
Romford
|
100
|
|
Warrington South
|
100
|
|
Charnwood
|
100
|
|
Cardiff South and Penarth
|
100
|
|
Southampton, Test
|
100
|
|
Fylde
|
100
|
|
Liverpool, Riverside
|
200
|
|
North East Somerset
|
100
|
|
Blackley and Broughton
|
100
|
|
Rushcliffe
|
100
|
|
Barking
|
100
|
|
Folkestone and Hythe
|
100
|
|
South Suffolk
|
100
|
|
Daventry
|
100
|
|
Portsmouth North
|
100
|
|
Stockton South
|
100
|
|
Sheffield, Hallam
|
100
|
|
Mid Worcestershire
|
100
|
|
Taunton Deane
|
100
|
|
Bedford
|
100
|
|
Bury St Edmunds
|
100
|
|
Derby South
|
100
|
|
Truro and Falmouth
|
100
|
|
South Derbyshire
|
100
|
|
Central Suffolk and North Ipswich
|
100
|
|
Leicester South
|
100
|
|
Fareham
|
100
|
|
South Thanet
|
100
|
|
Nottingham South
|
100
|
|
York Central
|
100
|
|
Tiverton and Honiton
|
100
|
|
Isle of Wight
|
200
|
|
Tewkesbury
|
100
|
|
Yeovil
|
100
|
|
Wells
|
100
|
|
Skipton and Ripon
|
100
|
|
Coventry North East
|
100
|
|
Exeter
|
100
|
|
Sheffield Central
|
100
|
|
Peterborough
|
100
|
