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Here's how to to make the wealthy pay
The Observer
|June 22, 2025
The chancellor's looming U-turn on inheritance tax reform isn’t merely an embarrassing retreat - it exposes a government constrained by its own limited imagination.
Labour's pledge to end the scandal of the ultra-rich sheltering global fortunes from tax signalled moral clarity. Yet as wealthy non-doms threaten to leave the UK, the Treasury rushes to reassure those with the deepest pockets, rather than uphold economic fairness.
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