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Tale of a Polish Family on Isle of Man [43]
rozumiemnic: Therefore, I suppose he paid for the flights himself, as any working parent would.
Yes, I shouldn't have implied that the flights were paid for by the welfare services. It is possible that the parents paid.
as the local hospital on the IOM can't cover for all cases a lot of patients are sent to Liverpool for treatment, the travel and accommodation for a close relative is also paid for. I think in the case of children that both parents are given free travel.
Isle of Man is not a place for charity...It is a tax haven....It is also a very insular place, meaning the native residents don't take to foreigners unless they are rich, and can make money from them.
Most people who live there only benefit from the financial services industry via lower income tax there are some exceptions though but you need to be paying more that £115,000 paid a year tax somewhere else to benefit from residency there most. A lot of businesses are there to benefit from the 0/10 corporate tax rate. Its probably no more insular than any Northern Town in UK, definitely not as multi-cultural as the cities in UK.
