Non-domicile Status

Lord Sikka Excerpts

Tuesday 28th January 2025 Lords Chamber

[Lord Livermore (Lab)]

I am grateful to the noble Lord, and I am of course happy to look at that. Obviously, we keep this policy under review and will continue to engage with stakeholders to ensure that the system operates as it should. It is important to remember that the basis of this policy is ensuring that everyone who makes their home in the UK should pay their taxes here; that is absolutely the right thing to do. We want to ensure that our system remains internationally competitive, and the system that we are introducing as a result of these reforms is far more internationally competitive than the system that it replaces.

[Lord Sikka (Lab)]

My Lords, for far too long the wants of the few have been prioritised over the needs of the many. I cannot recall marches or petitions calling for concessions to wealthy non-doms, but despite marches and petitions, the two-child benefit cap and winter fuel payments cut for pensioners below the poverty line remain. Can the Minister offer some guidance to families and pensioners as to how they can get a concession too?

[Lord Livermore (Lab)]

The Government are committed to making sure that the wealthiest in our society pay their fair share of tax, consistent with our commitment to economic growth. That is why the Chancellor announced a series of reforms at the Budget to help to fix the public finances in as fair a way as possible. That is absolutely what we are doing, and we are ensuring the fairest treatment to those affected.