House of Secrets: Who Owns London's Most Expensive Mansion?
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#2Surely, if we believe in the bigger fool theory, then the person left holding the most expensive property is that unicorn - the biggest fool!
Re: House of Secrets: Who Owns London's Most Expensive Mansion?
#3Surely, if we believe in the bigger fool theory, then the person left holding the most expensive property is that unicorn - the biggest fool!
Damn, your username is so fitting!
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#4I grew up not far from there, used to look at it looking over the Heath, falling down, like the ruins of Bishops Avenue [1], one of the most expensive street in London.
[1] http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/jan/31/inside-london...
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#5Spoiler - it's a secret because someone is evading tax, hiding mafia money, or money they gained through corruption.
It's a shame but unsurprising the investigator is a journalist rather than the British police or revenue service.
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#6Spoiler - it's a secret because someone is evading tax, hiding mafia money, or money they gained through corruption. It's a shame but unsurprising the investigator is a journalist rather than the British police or revenue service.
I think the core point here is that they're not evading British taxes - it quotes a tax bill of many millions of pounds...
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#7Spoiler - it's a secret because someone is evading tax, hiding mafia money, or money they gained through corruption. It's a shame but unsurprising the investigator is a journalist rather than the British police or revenue service.
because it's registered in the name of an off-shore company? pretty much any HNWI doesn't bank in high tax jurisdictions so yeah they're all tax evaders. the richer you get the less tax you pay.
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#8Spoiler - it's a secret because someone is evading tax, hiding mafia money, or money they gained through corruption. It's a shame but unsurprising the investigator is a journalist rather than the British police or revenue service.
because it's registered in the name of an off-shore company? pretty much any HNWI doesn't bank in high tax jurisdictions so yeah they're all tax evaders. the richer you get the less tax you pay.
I wouldn't judge that too quickly - it could well be about hiding money stolen from another country:
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/london-proper...
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#9Throw in a femme fatale and a couple of murders and this would make a great film - even the name, Witanhurst, has a lovely sort of gothic noirness to it.
This was a really enjoyable read.
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#10Some points:
1. It is not uncommon for some of the most expensive properties in London to have "mostly absentee owners, hiding behind offshore corporations based in tax havens". [0]
2. Highgate does have associations with wealthy Russians, perhaps due to the presence of the Russian Trade Delegation building, and that has sometimes led to friction with locals. See also Terry Jones's "Trouble on the Heath". [1]
3. The pub associated with Dick Turpin is the Spaniards Inn [2] (The Flask is on the other side of the Heath).
[0] http://www.vanityfair.com/style/society/2013/04/mysterious-r...
[1] https://books.google.co.uk/books/about/Trouble_on_the_Heath....