Will Reform’s Britannia Card tax plan win back the super-rich?

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A Robin Hood-style scheme to give low-income families the fees paid by non-doms seems attractive at first glance, says Sean O’Grady. But will it win back any generous billionaires?

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n its latest stab at policymaking, Reform UK has come up with the “Britannia Card”. It sounds like a kitsch gimmick from a building society, but it is actually the party’s attempt to recast tax policy to attract “wealth creators” to the UK.

The policy supposedly offers a bonus to workers with the lowest incomes in the country, funded entirely from the one-off fees charged to non-doms – billed fancifully as a kind of Robin Hood tax.