wealthy (rich) British

Beggars in a wealthy town that was named Britain's happiest place to live are making up to £200 a day, a homeless charity has said. By that estimation a five-day week would earn rough-sleepers in Royal Leamington Spa, Warwickshire, £52,000 a year tax free. The average British salary is £27,600, before ...

You don't have to own a small island or a luxury jet to take a (legal) hint from how millionaires and billionaires protect their money from taxes. Here are three ways you can navigate your own taxes like the wealthy do: ...

What is the worst tax in history? There was the 18th-century window tax, which forced thousands of homeowners to brick up their windows. Or what about the 17th-century dog tax? This odd levy, intended to deter poachers, taxed all dogs except working ones with docked tails, sparking the barbarous ...

LONDON — For years, anticorruption campaigners have railed against Britain's openness to ill-gotten riches from overseas and the foreigners who invest them. After a nerve agent attack on British soil, and the resulting diplomatic showdown between Russia and the West, that may be starting to change.

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - UK Home Secretary Amber Rudd said on Wednesday that London would consider reforming the Tier 1 visa for wealthy foreign ... applying checks on the origin of money of about 700 Russian nationals who entered the United Kingdom between 2008 and 2015 with a Tier 1 visa.

LONDON: Britain will look retrospectively at visas issued to wealthy foreign investors and consider whether action needs to be taken, Interior Minister Amber Rudd ... Rudd was asked about 700 Russians who had come to Britain between 2008 and 2015 with a "Tier 1 visa," given to people who want to run ...

This type of visa is given to foreigners planning to run a business in the UK and have access to at least £50,000 (US$70,750). “The Tier 1 was already reformed in 2015-2016 and it has been reduced by 84 percent since then,” Rudd told a committee of lawmakers. “I have asked my officials to look at what ...

Dr David Bann, of the Centre for Longitudinal Studies at UCL, said: “Our findings illustrate a need for new effective policies to reduce obesity and its socioeconomic inequality in children in the UK – previous policies have not been adequate, and existing policies are unlikely to be either. “Without effective ...

Both served in the Russian security services; both faced prosecution in Russia; both found sanctuary in Britain; both co-operated with British intelligence agencies. And both were attacked with rare poisons, of kinds available only to governments. The only important difference is that Litvinenko's murderers ...

The UK was the only country in Europe to see its "ultra-wealthy" population shrink last year. The number of ultra-wealthy individuals - those with $50M+ in net assets - rose by 10 per cent globally in 2017 according to a new report on global wealth. The report, conducted by estate agency Knight Frank, found ...