{"text":[[{"start":6,"text":"Bad news for the British Treasury: Chris Rokos is leaving. The billionaire hedge fund manager, who took home £477mn last year, has been the UK’s third-largest payer of income tax. He will now save a very large sum by relocating to Greece, which offers an annual flat fee of €100,000 on foreign earnings."}],[{"start":29.6,"text":"This is presumably the Greek government’s revenge for the Parthenon Marbles. Maybe Argentina should try something similar over the Falklands. If every country with a historic grievance against Britain follows suit, we’ll soon have no one left."}],[{"start":44.037,"text":"Yet is it possible that the travelling traders are making a mistake? I may not have a London house with two swimming pools, but I do have other reasons for staying put."}],[{"start":53.773,"text":"1. If I am going to leave London, I am certainly not going to do it in September, one of the few months when the weather suits the construction quality of the buildings."}],[{"start":63.36,"text":"2. Beaches are great, but have you ever got 5G on the Northern Line?"}],[{"start":68.48,"text":"3. Having watched The Odyssey — and Heathrow’s departures board this week — I feel people tend to underestimate the difficulty in travelling to Greece."}],[{"start":77.28,"text":"4. I also gather that the safest way to enter is disguised as a beggar, not a macro investor."}],[{"start":84.08,"text":"5. Never live anywhere that Britons regard as a tourist destination."}],[{"start":90,"text":"6. The last time I chose where to stay purely on financial grounds, I ended up in a Travelodge room with no windows."}],[{"start":96.8,"text":"7. If Britain is good enough for Harry and Meghan, the Bayeux Tapestry and yellow-legged Asian hornets, it’s probably good enough for me."}],[{"start":105.12,"text":"8. The nice thing about income tax is that it is only temporary, as it has been since 1842."}],[{"start":112,"text":"9. The nice thing about inheritance tax is that it is largely paid by people whose heirs don’t like them."}],[{"start":119.68,"text":"10. I wouldn’t want anyone to take my charitable donations, deduct the tax I have saved by moving abroad, and suggest that maybe I exaggerated when I said I wanted to “give something back to Britain”."}],[{"start":130.4,"text":"11. My broadband contract has just been renewed by Virgin Media. It doesn’t expire for 18 months, and I am highly unlikely to get through to customer service before then."}],[{"start":140.8,"text":"12. If human extinction really does have a 10 per cent chance of striking by 2030, as some Anthropic researchers think, I would prefer to be within 1,000 miles of friends who might at least try to save me."}],[{"start":154.24,"text":"13. I would be mortified if, on account of my new overseas residency, my donations to Reform UK ended in a police investigation."}],[{"start":163.28,"text":"14. When considering whether money-motivated breakaways are a good idea, remember that LIV Golf’s most-watched moment has been its bankruptcy filing."}],[{"start":173.92,"text":"15. I have had a DPD parcel due for delivery since July, and I know they will be arriving shortly."}],[{"start":179.84,"text":"16. I worry that, if I don’t live in Britain, I will find it harder to complain about it."}],[{"start":185.36,"text":"17. When my boss orders me back to the office five days a week, I would rather not explain that this will destroy our company’s carbon budget."}],[{"start":194.4,"text":"18. I am comfortable living in a country that Andrew Tate does not want to be extradited to. And where children’s reading scores are not plummeting."}],[{"start":203.44,"text":"19. Some days I walk down the street, and I don’t even trip over a Lime bike."}],[{"start":208.8,"text":"20. Seriously, does Oswald’s even exist in Greece?"}],[{"start":213.36,"text":"Most of all, I will not be moving abroad because surely one of the advantages of being a billionaire is that you do not have to worry about your tax bill or risk being caught in a protracted legal battle with HMRC over whether or not you spent 183 days in the country. Such thinking may explain why I am not — currently — a billionaire."}],[{"start":235.79,"text":""}]],"url":"https://audio.ftcn.net.cn/album/a_1789280581_4302.mp3"}