Lewis made a comment, somewhere, about paying tax in many countries. It'd make sense(at least I'd agree with it personally) if you were paying a little bit of tax in every country. So if you get 20m a year to race in 20 countries, you pay tax on 1mil per country. Because you're working there, right?
There may be some understandable logic to someone like him, on his income, not living in the UK.
For instance if I made big money and lived in the UK I'd be taxed on the income pretty heavily. And then my passport holders(the US) would also take a second bite above a certain amount(I think the first 100k). And if Hungary, Japan, etc et al also wanted token amounts, my effective tax rate would start to reach ridiculous levels.
Which if I were on 20m I'm not sure I'd mind so much. The penthouse/yacht/private jet lifestyle isn't for me. After the first million I'd probably run out of ideas.
Edited by Ross Stonefeld, 17 December 2014 - 15:33.