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Monaco has long been a tax haven for London\u2019s ultrawealthy seeking to shield their fortunes from the UK Treasury. This summer, David Reuben, the 88-year-old property magnate who shares second place on the Sunday Times Rich List with his brother Simon, left his Holland Park home for the principality, a spokesman for the brothers recently confirmed. The Times<\/em> first reported the move.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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The brothers were reported to have been non-doms, a status that let them pay U.K. tax only on income earned or brought into the U.K. That was until Britain abolished it last year\u2014a change that also brought long-term residents\u2019 worldwide assets within reach of Britain\u2019s 40% inheritance tax.<\/p>\n

Monaco, meanwhile, levies no income, capital gains, or inheritance tax. The brothers\u2019 combined fortune is estimated at almost \u00a328 billion, and Bloomberg\u2019s Billionaires Index values David Reuben alone at $13.1 billion.<\/p>\n

Across the globe, a similar drama is playing out in California. Britain\u2019s exodus follows a tax regime already dismantled, while California\u2019s is unfolding ahead of one voters are waiting to approve.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Early voting opened this week on Proposition 40, a one-time 5% levy on the state\u2019s roughly 200 billionaires. Google cofounders, venture capitalists, and a Hollywood director have already\u00a0decamped for Miami, Las Vegas, Austin, and New York, and didn\u2019t wait for the result.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Reuben\u2019s spokesman confirmed the move but\u00a0declined to comment further\u00a0on why he made it. Simon Reuben has lived in Monaco for about 40 years after moving there for health reasons.<\/p>\n

Reuben\u2019s move comes about 18 months after the U.K. scrapped its \u201cnon-domicile\u201d tax status, which for more than two centuries let wealthy residents with permanent homes abroad avoid U.K. tax on overseas income. The new residence-based system took effect April 6, 2025, Fortune<\/em> previously reported, and tax advisors warned then that the biggest sticking point was the prospect of Britain\u2019s 40% inheritance tax reaching long-term settlers\u2019 global assets.<\/p>\n

Since then, the departures have piled up. More than a dozen billionaires worth a combined \u00a3120 billion have quit the U.K. in the two years since Labour took power, according to a new analysis of Bloomberg Billionaires Index data reported by the Evening Standard<\/em>. That tally doesn\u2019t include Reuben. Chancellor John Healey is now under pressure to raise revenue in his first budget on Oct. 28.<\/p>\n

California\u2019s own billionaire tax battle<\/h2>\n

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) rallied for Prop 40 in San Francisco on Saturday, with Sanders calling it the most important ballot initiative in the country. Gov. Gavin Newsom is a critic, warning that billionaires can simply move to another state to avoid it.<\/p>\n

California already has early returns on that argument. Six of the state\u2019s 214 billionaires were widely reported to have left before the initiative\u2019s Jan. 1, 2026, residency cutoff, including Larry Page, Sergey Brin, Peter Thiel, car-loan magnate Don Hankey, former Uber CEO Travis Kalanick, and Steven Spielberg. By Fortune<\/em>\u2018s Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez\u2019s most recent calculation, Page, Brin, Thiel and Kalanick alone would have owed about $29 billion\u2014more than a fourth of the measure\u2019s projected $100 billion haul.<\/p>\n

Brin has since donated $102 million to Building a Better California, the group leading the opposition, according to campaign filings cited by Fortune<\/em>\u2019s Sasha Rogelberg. He could owe roughly $13 billion if the tax passes. Opponents have spent more than $187 million against about $32 million in support, and two billionaire-backed countermeasures, Propositions 41 and 42, would nullify Prop 40 if either draws more votes.<\/p>\n

To be sure, not every billionaire is running away. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang told Bloomberg<\/em> Television<\/em> he hadn\u2019t thought about the tax once and would pay whatever Silicon Valley levied.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cWe chose to live in Silicon Valley and whatever taxes they would like to apply, so be it,\u201d Huang said. \u201cI\u2019m perfectly fine with it, it never crossed my mind once.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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