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<\/p>\nA millionaire castle owner and ex-reality TV star has left the UK in protest over Rachel Reeves’ non-dom tax raid.<\/p>\n
Ann Kaplan Mulholland, 64, who owns a 13th-century castle in Kent, revealed she has now left the UK with her husband, Stephen Mulholland.<\/p>\n
She confirmed to GB News that she is now living in Italy, where they will pay just \u20ac200,000 a year on foreign income, but would return if her non-dom status is revived.<\/p>\n
Mrs Kaplan Mulholland, who bought the castle in 2023 after moving to the UK a year earlier, made headlines when she hosted a micronation event last weekend at her castle.<\/p>\n
The stunt included drag queens and court jesters on stilts, a choreographed procession, beefeaters and yeomenary.<\/p>\n
The Canadian-born millionaire, who has a net worth of \u00a3500million, made her fortune through a small loans company called iFinance.<\/p>\n
She arrived at her coronation by horse and carriage, dressed in green and gold to highlight the impending wealth exodus currently sweeping across Britain.<\/p>\n
Mrs Kaplan Mulholland and her husband have been claiming non-dom status for three years, which she revealed was the main reason they moved to the UK.<\/p>\n
A millionaire castle owner and ex-reality TV star has left the UK in protest over Rachel Reeves’ non-dom tax raid<\/p>\n
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The term “non-dom” refers to a UK resident whose permanent home is considered to be outside of the UK for tax purposes.<\/p>\n
The pair bought a medieval castle and invested \u00a325million to transform it into a luxury wedding venue, which they intend to keep, with the millionaire telling GB News: “I don’t want to see people without a job.”<\/p>\n
The castle employs around 100 people.<\/p>\n
After looking at “a number of places worldwide” the couple decided to move to England due to the non-domiciled status tax regime.<\/p>\n
She described the UK as “beautiful”, highlighting the British countryside and London as two main attractions.<\/p>\n
The millionaire explained that she still pays tax on earnings and assets in England, but not on profits she makes worldwide from other businesses.<\/p>\n
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She told The People’s Channel: “We had choices. We could have gone to Dubai, Italy or Switzerland. But we chose England.”<\/p>\n
“We pay tax in England, we employ people, we invest in this country.”<\/p>\n
Speaking on the tax changes implemented by the Labour Government, Mrs Kaplan Mulholland told Britain’s News Channel: “This is not a good decision”, adding: “Any millionaire or Billionaire is going to just leave.”<\/p>\n
“We are very, very able to just pack up and leave the country.”<\/p>\n
Highlighting the high number of people who have left the UK, she said: “What they’ve taken with them is the taxes they paid in this country, the investments they have and everything they attract.”<\/p>\n
“People are going to lose their jobs.”<\/p>\n
She explained that the Chancellor’s calculations do not include taxes lost when people leave the country.<\/p>\n
Mrs Kaplan Mulholland said: “I don’t want to leave, I go to church here, I have a community that I adore, and I chose to live in England. But we aren’t making a good decision if we have to be double-taxed.”<\/p>\n
She urged Rachel Reeves, whom she repeatedly called “reckless”, to reconsider the tax changes and instead encourage those leaving to invest in UK markets.<\/p>\n
The businesswoman described the non-domiciled tax regime as “smart” and agreed that specific changes should be made to help tax the wealthy.<\/p>\n
A July 2025 report from migration consultancy Henley & Partners projects that the UK will see a net outflow of 16,500 millionaires in 2025. <\/p>\n
This would be the largest millionaire exodus from any country in a decade.<\/p>\n
A HM Treasury spokesman said: “If you make your home in Britain, then you should pay your taxes here too. <\/p>\n
“That is why we abolished the non-dom tax status to invest in our public services, including the NHS. But the UK remains a highly attractive place to live and invest. <\/p>\n
“Our main capital gains tax rate is lower than any other G7 European country and our new residence-based regime is simpler and more attractive than the previous one, whilst it also addresses tax system unfairness so every long-term resident pays their taxes here.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A millionaire castle owner and ex-reality TV star has left the UK in protest over Rachel Reeves’ non-dom…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":227943,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[35884,6491,96,50,229,1445,18329,56,44208,54,55],"class_list":["post-227942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-across-the-uk","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-news","tag-politics","tag-rachel-reeves","tag-south-east","tag-uk","tag-uk-politics","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227942\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/227943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}