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Ireland is the easiest one and one I’m seriously considering. You can move and work visa free as a UK citizen, and after you’ve lived there for 5 years you can claim Irish citizenship. EU passport back and can go wherever you want. I quite like the Irish craic so I might end up making it home for good.

Handy if you’ve got roots in the UK as well because you’re not far away, especially if you live near Dublin which has flights to most major cities in the UK for £20 to £30. Only problem is they’ve got an even worse housing crisis and cost of living crisis than we do. Significantly more expensive than even Scandinavia.

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It does strike me as more than a little ironic that you are advocating to moving to a country with famously low historical corporate tax rates[1], and which has a similar tax rate to the UK without the (just removed) 45% tier[2]. on a thread which is about the British government lowering tax rates.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/oct/07/ireland-poised... [2] https://www.revenue.ie/en/personal-tax-credits-reliefs-and-e...

It's an English speaking country. If I were a UK citizen I would look at Australia or USA if Ireland doesn't pan out.

Lot easier said than done. If you‘re self taught and don’t have a degree it’s very, very difficult to get into either. You need to accumulate six years of experience in one of their in demand occupations to even be considered.

You're not wrong, but I would not compare UK and Irish corporation tax rates. In the UK, any company that is publicly traded, multinational or larger than a few million in revenue a year pays a different set of taxes at a much lower rate. What we call "corporation tax" is really more like "small company and self employed people using limited liability" tax. It's only called corporation tax for historic reasons.

Just fyi. Most people don't realise this, including most Brits. It's something if an in joke for accountants and people who own LTDs.

It’s not the taxes I’m looking to escape, it’s the nutcase Tory government, the monarchy and the backwards brexit voters who seem to run the country now.

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