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Fact check: would abolishing non-dom status raise more tax?

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There are now 116,000 non-doms. It is costing at least hundreds of millions of pounds to our country. And it cannot be justified. It makes Britain an offshore tax haven for a few.

Ed Miliband, Labour party leader in a speech at the University of Warwick

The Labour party wants to abolish the non...

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Labour manifesto: Miliband pitches fiscal responsibility

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Labour has become the first of the three bigger parties to publish an election manifesto.

And while the document reiterates familiar themes, it also presents something of a departure. The emphasis is very much on demonstrating that the party would be fiscally responsible in government.

As Miliband unveiled his plans, I was in the highly marginal...

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