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Home / In Brief / Open wallets but closed borders……

16 May 2025

Open wallets but closed borders……

Clare Maurice

In her third column for the Financial Times (and one of the Editor’s favourites this week) Clare Maurice ponders the government’s apparently conflicting policy of encouraging inward investment of foreign wealth with fiscal concessions without providing an appropriate immigration route.

“There is a yawning disconnect between the system that seeks to incentivise the tax-free influx of capital into the UK and the practical reality of the immigration regime. When my clients learn that in order to gain a route to stay legally in the UK we have to shoehorn them into narrow categories, they are bemused, then frustrated.”

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Clare Maurice

Senior Partner

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Clare Maurice is the Senior Partner of Maurice Turnor Gardner, and is recognised as one of the leading figures within the private wealth industry.

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