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Thinking Allowed

Rich Russians - Millionaire tax flight

Thinking Allowed

BBC

Society & Culture, Science

4.4997 Ratings

🗓️ 17 October 2018

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Rich Russians: Laurie Taylor talks to Elisabeth Schimpfossl, Lecturer in Sociology at Aston University, about her study of the changing nature of the Russian elite, from oligarchs to bourgeoisie. Also, millionaire tax flight - myth or reality? Cristobal Young, Associate Professor of Sociology at Cornell University, suggests that location is surprisingly important to the rich.

Producer: Jayne Egerton

Transcript

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0:00.0

Take some time for yourself with soothing classical music from the mindful mix, the Science of

0:07.0

Happiness Podcast.

0:08.0

For the last 20 years I've dedicated my career to exploring the science of living a happier more meaningful life and I want

0:14.4

to share that science with you.

0:16.1

And just one thing, deep calm with Michael Mosley.

0:19.4

I want to help you tap in to your hidden relaxation response system and open the door to that

0:25.4

calmer place within. Listen on BBC Sounds.

0:30.3

BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts.

0:36.5

Hello, I'm Laurie Taylor and this is Thinking

0:39.6

aloud from BBC Radio 4.

0:41.8

Bringing you everything you wish to know about the rather

0:44.8

extraordinary behavior of very rich Russians. Somewhere there's a place for us. The romantic longing for a better happy and more fulfilling home.

1:03.0

Well, it's a pretty standard cultural aspiration.

1:06.0

Poets yearn for the warm south,

1:08.0

Checovian heroines yearn for Moscow,

1:11.0

and on a winter's day, the mamas and papas are busy California dreaming.

1:20.7

But for me and my teenage friends in Liverpool the rainbow's end was always London.

1:25.0

None of us had ever been there but going off to London was both, well it was a constant wish and a useful threat.

1:32.0

Look, treat me badly and I'll go straight to Lyme Street and be on the next train to Houston.

1:36.7

Then you'll regret it. You'll see how much you'll miss me. Well I can't help but detect that, well that that that yaboo note in some of the pronouncements

1:47.3

made by celebrities who threaten to leave the UK because they can no longer tolerate the manner in which it taxes the rich and successful.

1:54.0

I'm talking about the sort of yarboos uttered by the likes of Tracy Emmin and Michael Kane and Jim Davidson

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