It has become an ever increasing bore to listen to interviewers asking Tory politicians about the tax status of Michael Ashcroft. The Tories have been made to sound evasive because they have not pried into another person’s tax status.
Finally though, Mr Ashcroft has clarified his own statement on his website, detailed by Ian Dale. In it he states that he stopped being the UN representative for Belize, re-took residence in the UK and started to declare all his taxable income to HMRC. In effect he became a Non-Dom, much the same as many Labour donors such as Lord Paul.
When did he do this? In 2000, so for the last 9 years we’ve had question after question, journos digging into his private affairs and now we know the truth. He didn’t do anything wrong at all.
I hope the matter can be put to rest now.
Squiffy.
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