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3 days agoMexico's biggest fortunes seek certainty outside the country
Wealth is rising rapidly in Mexico while GDP stagnates, and heirs increasingly invest abroad, reducing productive domestic investment.
Rich people quitting the UK could be required to pay a 20% tax on their business assets as part of plans reportedly being considered by the chancellor, Rachel Reeves. The Treasury has drawn up plans for a settling-up charge on assets; a move that would bring the UK into line with most other G7 nations and raise a predicted 2bn for the public coffers, according to the Times.