While house prices across Europe have plunged in recent months, a stream of wealthy tax exiles is continuing to push up property prices in offshore tax enclaves across the continent.
According to a new survey, tax havens from Gibraltar to the Isle of Man are bucking the slump, with many wealthy Britons helping to drive up prices, The Guardian reports. http://www.guardian.co.uk/money/2009/jul/12/tax-exiles-europe-property Tory donor Lord Ashcroft is facing fresh pressure to declare whether he pays taxes in the UK after the Commons passed new party funding rules, according to the BBC. The move, which was nodded through by MPs without a vote, will cap donations from non-UK tax payers at £7,500. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/8148905.stm A Miami judge...
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