article_snippet.sent: Ed Miliband claim to crackdown on the super-rich unravelled today after it emerged Ed Balls has warned the idea of scrapping non-dom rules would cost the country money.
article_snippet.sent: Ed Miliband used a speech to say Ed Miliband will 'abolish' the 200-year-old rule for non-doms, which applies to around 116,000 people, claiming around 116,000 people make Britain an 'offshore tax haven for a few' and can 'no longer be justified'.
article_snippet.sent: Ed Miliband argues that non-dom tests 'are not very rigorous' and can be granted to people who have a burial plot or property abroad .
article_snippet.sent: But Ed Miliband argues that non-dom tests 'are not very rigorous' and can be granted to people who have a burial plot or property abroad.
article_snippet.sent: Mr Miliband said non-dom status results from a discredited belief that 'anything goes for those at the top and that what is good for the rich is always good for Britain'.
article_snippet.sent: Mr Miliband added: 'There are people who live here in Britain like you and me, work here in Britain, are permanently settled here in Britain like you and me, but aren't required to pay taxes like you and me because you and me take advantage of what has become an increasingly arcane 200-year-old loophole. '
article_snippet.sent: There are now 116,000 non-doms, costing hundreds of millions of pounds to the country – it can no longer be justified, and it makes Britain an offshore tax haven for a few.'
article_snippet.sent: The Lib Dems said the number non-dom numbers 'exploded' under the last Labour government and more than doubled while Ed Miliband was an adviser in the Treasury .
article_snippet.sent: Chancellor George Osborne said 'the right approach' was to hit 'non-doms' with higher annual charges for exploiting the system - effectively making it only worthwhile for the very wealthiest.
article_snippet.sent: Non-dom numbers exploded under Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, more than doubling when Ed Miliband was an adviser in the Treasury,' Chief Secretary to the Treasury Danny Alexander said. '