Would you move to Dubai to get away from tax hikes?

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🗓️ 29 August 2025

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Dubai is doing its best to draw in disillusioned young Britons, offering cut-price properties, visa incentives for entrepreneurs and of course, the prospect of paying no income tax.

Footballer Rio Ferdinand and his family have even announced they are making the move - but two young families This is Money spoke to say it isn't just for sports stars and influencers.

They say it's easier to start your own business, they can get petrol for 50p a litre, and send their children to private school.

Helen Crane, Georgie Frost are joined by Money Mail editor and This is Money alumna and Money Mail editor Rachel Rickard-Straus to discuss whether the money incentives would ever be enough for them to do the same.

It comes as yet another planned tax hike is being rumoured ahead of Labour's Autumn Budget.

This time, landlords are being threatened with paying National Insurance on the income they make from rent - but who will the tax hike really hurt?

Elsewhere, our savings expert Sylvia Morris is convinced NS&I will slash the rate on its ever-popular Premium Bonds this October.

Georgie is ditching hers, but should you do the same - and where can you get a better rate?

Finally Helen discusses helping a reader who was told she couldn't get her money back for an £883 ferry crossing her husband booked, as she had the wrong kind of death certificate.

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0:00.0	Welcome to This Is Money podcast, sponsored by Charles Stanley Direct.
0:06.1	I'm Georgie Frost, and joining me and Helen Crane today is a very, very special guest,
0:12.4	a This Is Money podcast legend on the first ever show way back November 2014.
0:20.2	It's Rachel Rickard Strauss. And coming up, with more rumoured tax hikes
0:24.5	on the way, landlords are reportedly the latest target for the government. Is it time to move to Dubai?
0:31.3	Premium bonds look like they could get even less attractive soon, so is it time to say goodbye
0:35.7	to Ernie? And with one year, NS&I, British
0:38.8	saving bonds about to mature, where should you put your money next? Also today going to uni
0:43.8	or know someone who is, we have a current account trick, which could mean you arrive with
0:48.3	hundreds of pounds in pocket, and crane on the case, this time a sad story involving
0:53.3	the wrong type of death certificate.
0:56.0	Don't forget to stay up to date with all the latest breaking money news just go to this ismoney.co.
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1:38.4	petrol at 50 p a litre, shopping malls with ski slopes and sunshine all year round. Dubai, especially if you've been on
1:46.6	LinkedIn recently, I've noticed, seems to have a lot to recommend itself, especially as every
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