Robert Gaines-Cooper, the Seychelles-based UK multi-millionaire in a long-running battle with HMRC, has won the right to appeal to the Supreme Court.
Thousands of UK tax exiles could find themselves chased for backdated tax if he loses his case, the Telegraph reports. The entrepreneur left Britain in 1976 but is being pursued for tax backdated to 1982. Appeal Court judges ruled against him in February but Gaines-Cooper says he wants to fight on because the case raises important issues of clarity, consistency and fairness that are relevant to all taxpayers. Gaines-Cooper, 72, says he is not trying to evade tax and his companies pay tax in 16 countries, including the UK and US, Canada, Italy, Australia, Singapore, Germany, Spain, ...
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