Please ignore this person talking crap - there is no such status as 'tax exile'.
They refer to 'non-resident status' which is completely different from domicile status - neither of which this person seems to understand, never mind the difference between them. A desperate attempt to 'prove' Morrissey is a 'tax cheat'(?) based on ignorance.
I can assure you I understand the difference and you are holding on to terminology which isn't relevant to the discussion at hand.
I understand tax legislation and corporate and individual structures entirely as I need to for my own situation. There is no ignorance I can assure you.
I have said time and time again that what he does is not illegal and I have never used the term tax cheat even though you put it in quotes suggesting that is what I am stating.
As an owner of a very complex tax structure I fully understand it as do my tax lawyers and accountants.
The term tax exile is a valid term although not a term used by the HMRC but it obviously refers to someone who through structures does not pay tax in the UK and avoids paying tax in the UK. I used this term as just that, a term rather than a technical HMRC status which you are saying I am doing which isn't the case.
In terms of your bickering over domicile and residency in this concept it doesn't really matter. What we are talking about with regard to tax, in its simplest structure is tax residency ie where the person's permanent home is and where his main source of income is generated or where the person is a director of a company etc etc. It is possible to be resident in more than one country and individual tax rules per country come into play and it is the lawyers and accountants who will sort that be as efficient as possible according to those varying rules.
Generally most people's tax residency is the same as their domicile.
Domicile or non domicile status can have significant impact on tax liability and comes into play significantly when dealing with things like inheritance tax etc.
Both terms often get used together because for the most part for most people it equates to the same country. People are usually domiciled in the country where they were born but when we are talking about families with immigration history it can be the country of the father but this is dependent on specific cases.
Domicile generally refers to the place where the person has a permanent home and it can differ from the country where tax resident.
Morrissey doesn't have a permanent home in the UK and is not tax resident in the UK. As for domiciled country well that depends on many things. It can refer to the county where the permanent home is. It can also be the country of birth or of his father's birth. At 16 he had the choice to change his domicile country and that therefore could have been the UK or Ireland at that point.
When he emigrated to LA his domicile country became where his permanent home was which was the US but as far as HMRC goes he will also have a deemed domicile which would either be the UK or Ireland based on his father's birth.
So when we are talking about migration there is not just one domicile. There is the domicile of origin which will automatically have been the UK unless he changed it to Ireland but when he moved out of the UK his main domicile became the US. His parent's domicile of origin was Ireland and it is possible he took that too.
When we talk about domicile of origin it is possible for someone to born in one country but then have a domicile of origin as the domicile of the father ie where the father was born which is this case would be Ireland and there have historically been legal connections for him in Ireland.
It would be up to his accountants and lawyers to work out the best domicile and residency structure to have to minimise tax liability. It is you calling this cheating but not me. It is perfectly legal and absolutely standard practice for wealthy people wanting to minimise their liabilities.
But all of that is by the by. I have been talking about tax liability and tax residency ie where he pays tax and that is not the UK. I am not saying he doesn't pay tax but he isn't paying it here but that will cause new issues now if he inherits from his mother because that then is another definitive link to the UK financially and how the inheritance tax is paid and who pays it will be something being discussed because inheritance can be problematic when dealing with people with different domiciles and different residencies with regard to tax.
I can understand you disagreeing with things but it would be preferable if you could discuss without being so angry and judgemental and rude.