Make the super-rich pay their taxes

Never mind the revolving watchstands and the personal shoppers, we just want the super-rich to pay their share.

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Some super-rich women love shopping. Others employ an assistant to do it for them."My clients are very much in the 0.1%," writes one personal shopper, anonymously, in The Times. Let's call her Miss X. She charges £90 an hour and only works by word-of-mouth. Her clients never have to walk into a shop: Miss X will have £100,000-worth of clothes from the likes of Matches and Net-a-Porter sent on approval and the client will then keep, say, £15,000-worth. The trying-on and choosing happens at home; whatever isn't wanted is sent back to the stores.

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