It turns out that for 14 years, 125 thousand millionaires moved to the UK for a permanent residence. And these are 15% of millionaires who live on foggy albion.
The search for a new country for living, it turns out, is the lot of the poor or representatives of the middle class. Quite wealthy people are also not averse to moving to a richer country or to where the conditions for business development are more acceptable than in their homeland.
After Britain, the USA is a popular place of wealthy migrants, where about 52 thousand people moved over the same period of time, with millionth states. In third place – Singapore.
In principle, it is not difficult to understand that all these three countries are world economic flagships and their taxation systems are sometimes more accurately acceptable for business immigrants than in their native countries.
But the leaders in the outflow of thicknesses are countries such as China, India and France. Not far from them are Italy and Russia. The most interesting, for many wealthy people in these countries, emigration is not just a search for new markets, business contacts, but often to flight from possible (and often already coming) problems with the law or competitors in their countries. There are many who have already earned a lot, just finds the most cozy place, a country where it will be more calmly meeting old age, learn children, get quality services.
Rich French, for example, intensified in recent years, when the tax system in France has become hostile to rich. For a couple of years, several tens of thousands of French millionaires flew through the La-Channel.
In many countries of the world, business immigration is actually legalized. If a person invests 500 thousand or a million dollars in the country’s economy, he can count on obtaining citizenship according to a simplified scheme and get a citizen’s passport, for example Malta, in a couple of months.