HSBC conducts a review of its domicile every three years anyway, which would make a move easier.
Malaria control in malarious regions consisted of domicile spraying with DDT every 4 months (no agricultural use), as had been implemented since 1947 and would continue until 1983 (no insecticide resistance).
Under this get-out, anyone successfully arguing that their true domicile lies outside this country can spend every moment of every waking day in the UK, enjoying the health service and all the other public services, and law and order – and yet pay far less tax than any UK resident.
We obtained anonymised, individual-level mortality data (including information on age, sex and domicile of residence at death) for every registered death between 1996 and 2005 from the New Zealand Ministry of Health.
Group of records, presumably belonging to a single person, were 'eyeballed' (checking every case manually) to filter out administrative twins by checking domicile, initials, and apparent inconsistencies in clinical history (n=48).
A Singaporean company moving its tax domicile there (holding all else constant) would lose $0.09 for every dollar of pre-tax profit.
Every few years there's a small populist flurry of complaint against the domicile laws, and the government mutters something, and even very occasionally does something, such as introduce the £30,000 annual fee for domicile, rising later this year to £50,000.
Switching domicile is not easy.
"Because of the special needs of this family," said the company's president, Brian M. Stolar, "our team used every conceivable contact to assemble the most cutting edge technology — probably more than has ever been assembled in one domicile".
