List of people with non-domiciled status in the UK


Someone with non-domiciled status, sometimes called a 'non-dom', is a person living in the United Kingdom who is considered under British law to be domiciled in another country. This can have significant tax advantages for the wealthy. In 2010, non-doms became a political issue. Note that this status is not the same as citizenship; a non-dom may be a British passport-holder, or may be a foreign national.
Non-domiciled status can either be acquired from one's father, which is known as a 'domicile of origin', or by abandoning one's domicile of origin and demonstrating the intention to reside outside of the UK indefinitely. According to the official government page, "UK residents who have their permanent home outside the UK may not have to pay UK tax on foreign income."
In the 2012/13 tax year, more than 113,000 people in the UK claimed non-dom status. The Independent estimated that there were about 116,000 in 2013, an increase of 33,000 since 1997.
The issue of non-doms came to public attention in 2010, and led to the passage of Constitutional Reform and Governance Act 2010, which said among other things that a person not domiciled in the UK could not serve in the House of Lords. Some non-doms gave up their seats in order to maintain their tax status.

Notable "non-doms"

Prominent non-doms include:
Those who resigned from the House of Lords over the issue include Raj Bagri, Baron Bagri, Baroness Lydia Dunn, Norman Foster, Lord Laidlaw and Alistair McAlpine, Baron McAlpine of West Green.

Former "non-doms"

Lord Ashcroft was arguably the most prominent of these. After some publicity and political pressure, in 2010 he gave up his non-dom status in order to stay in the House of Lords. However, in 2015 he retired as a working peer, which the Financial Times points out would allow him to "revive his non-domiciled tax status".