The single important ...

..quality the non-dom should expect to pay for, and it's not our NHS or social security safety ...

Alice Thomson writes in today's Times ...

The Chancellor must scrap their bizarre hereditary status, then make them pay fair taxes ...

...They are our guests. We should be flattered that they have chosen to live here rather than anywhere else in the world. They tend to use private schools and private GPs. They employ nannies, chauffeurs and endless builders as they convert their basements into swimming pools. They buy £500 Laboutin shoes — think of the VAT on those — and they give employment to our bright graduates as tutors to their children. Britain’s 200,000 non-doms are an asset to our country.

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These aren’t people who will flounder if the Government toughens up the rules. The Treasury should look to America, where above the entrance to the US Internal Revenue Service in Washington are Oliver Wendell Holmes’s words: “Taxes are what we pay for civilised society.” The wealthy come to Britain because it is civilised. They need to pay to keep it that way. 

... it's not the swimming pools or preference for Laboutin shoes that interests me, it is those that claim the non-dom status fail to pay the piper in full, the £30,000 a year (rising to £50,000) entrance fee to the UK fails to account for the sacrifices that the peoples of the UK have made, made so that it is possible for this relatively small group of people can enjoy democracy without the Mafia, either Italian or Russian, democracy needs paying for ....

... by all, including the Non-dom.

... in full.