## Richard Tice: Reform millionaires think rules are for other people We already knew Tice was [a fan of tax havens][8] and [using loopholes to avoid hundreds of thousands of pounds in corporation tax][9]. He has made it clear that [he thinks it’s completely normal and acceptable to do so][10]. Reform leader [Nigel Farage][11], meanwhile, openly stated that he had [bought a house in Clacton][12]. But amid claims he had avoided more than £44,000 in stamp duty by putting the £885,000 property in his partner’s name, he backtracked. He insisted his partner had paid for it upfront with her own money (which the *BBC* said [wasn’t a believable claim][13]). In Farage’s case, it wouldn’t have been illegal to give money to his partner so the house was in her name, but doing so to pay a lower stamp duty would have been highly hypocritical considering his boisterous criticism of Labour’s [Angela Rayner][14] for doing the same thing. Farage had said at a Reform conference that [Rayner’s decision “screams of entitlement”.][15] > It screams to a government that, despite all the promises that this would be a new different kind of politics, is as bad, if not worse, than the one that went before. In reality, it looks like the [wealthy white men leading Reform][16] — who want tough laws for ordinary people on issues like immigration and benefits — also feel entitled to bend the rules when it comes to their own business. And it’s becoming clearer and clearer that they would make [British politics even murkier][17] than it already is. By [Ed Sykes][18] [1]: https://www.thecanary.co/?s=Richard+Tice [2]: https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/09718143/officers [3]: https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/06016163/officers [4]: https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/04420352/officers [5]: https://taxpolicy.org.uk/2026/04/11/richard-tice-company-failed-to-pay-120k-tax-dividends/ [6]: https://www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/article/richard-tice-tax-reform-farage-vx8j502fr [7]: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/apr/12/richard-tice-reform-uk-quidnet-reit-tax-dividends [8]: https://goodlawproject.org/reform-mp-richard-tice-had-millions-squirrelled-away-in-a-tax-haven/ [9]: https://www.thenational.scot/news/25937872.richard-tice-avoided-600-000-tax-exploiting-loophole/ [10]: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c8x7yj99jrwo [11]: https://www.thecanary.co/?s=Nigel+Farage [12]: https://www.thecanary.co/trending/2025/09/05/farage-clacton-home/ [13]: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ce845w70g0yo [14]: https://www.thecanary.co/?s=Angela+Rayner [15]: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ce845w70g0yo [16]: https://www.thecanary.co/trending/2025/11/11/brits-largely-oppose-reforms-anti-climate-agenda/ [17]: https://www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/2026/03/25/reform-crypto-crackdown/ [18]: https://www.thecanary.co/author/oso/ https://www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/2026/04/13/richard-tice-tax/","name":"The Canary (RSS/Atom feed)"}