I’m Britain’s richest gypsy but will NEVER return to UK – I won’t pay income tax for as long as I live, says Alfie Best
BRITAIN’S richest gypsy has vowed never to return to the UK – meaning he wont pay another penny of income tax.
Alfie Best, who founded caravan park titan Wyldecrest Parks, is worth an estimated £745 million.
But he’s now sick of being “punished” by the taxman for being a successful businessman.
He told MailOnline: “It is true I will not pay any income tax… But all my companies are still in the UK so they will be paying [corporation] tax.
“I am all for a fair tax system, but HMRC are not being fair, and they go after people like me and shake them like a money tree.
“I am going to start a business here and have no intention of returning to the UK.”
It is unclear what Alfie’s tax bill is each year.
Born to Romani gypsies in a caravan on the side of a road near Leicester, he started work before he was ten.
Now, aged 54, he’s living the high life in Monaco.
Alfie doesn’t have to pay personal income tax in the Riviera haven and now spends his days browsing £25 million flats, having left behind his £7 million Surrey mansion.
The move to the famous principality has also seen him forced to flog most of his luxury car collection.
A 300mph Bugatti Chiron and 250mph Veyron sold for over £3m, while a Porsche, Bentley, Rolls-Royce convertible and two Mercedes G Wagons were also jettisoned.
The £4.5million seven-seater Airbus ACH130 helicopter, which boasts the production number 007 and registration G-YPSE on the fuselage, was also sold.
But all is not lost.
The multi-millionaire says he’s now waiting for a £10 million yacht to be delivered and a a £500,000 Rolls Royce Spectre should be dropped off anytime soon.
The dad-of-two boasts a whopping property portfolio, including ten rental villas in Barbados, and a Hertfordshire golf course.
He also owns homes in and around London worth a total of almost £30 million.
It’s all thanks to Wyldecrest Parks, which opened its first site in Essex 24 years ago.
It’s now ballooned to an empire of more than 100 mobile home sites from Scotland to Cornwall with 16,000 residents and a staff of 400.
Annual profits top £70 million.
He said of his new life: “I am looking forward to what lies ahead for me and have no regrets about moving to Monaco.”