Record number of UK expats escape stealth taxation

Record numbers of Britons are retiring abroad and exploring the benefits of leading international financial centres in a desperate bid to escape the rising stealth tax demands imposed by Chancellor Gordon Brown. Over 970,000 are claiming their pension overseas after moving in search of a better quality of life and in protest at the increasing levels of duties being levied - particularly council tax which has rocketed in recent years. As well as swelling the number of expatriates around the world to 15.5 million, it has also created a mini-boom in the amount of advice about offshore cent...