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316:, London. An article in the Guardian described how Hans Rausing had taken advantage of the UK's "remittance basis" of taxation to reduce his UK tax exposure while UK resident. In 2002, for example, he earned income of around £225M but, according to the report, he incurred UK income tax on only £1M of it, because most of it arose outside the UK and therefore, because he did not "remit" it to the UK, the remittance basis meant he did not incur UK tax on it. 232:
Tetra Pak's success in the 1970s and 1980s has been credited to the leadership of Hans and Gad Rausing, who turned the six-person family business into a multinational company. Over the course of his career, Rausing became a specialist in Russian affairs and made many investments in Russia and
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Ukraine. He was responsible for Tetra Pak's Russian market, and negotiated the first Tetra Pak machine export to the Soviet Union in 1959, eventually making Tetra Pak the largest foreign employer in Russia.
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company in the world. In the early 1980s Rausing moved to the United Kingdom to avoid Swedish taxes, in 1995 he sold his share of the company to his brother,
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Hans Rausing and his wife Märit donated large sums to charities and research in the UK and Sweden, among others to large medical research projects at
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Hans Rausing received an honorary doctorate from Lund University. He was a visiting professor at
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Department of History and Philosophy of Science hosts an Annual Hans Rausing Lecture.
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world fortune ranking, Rausing was placed at number 83 with an estimated fortune of
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Tetra Pak. A Vision Becomes Reality. A company history with a difference
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Rausing was a resident of the UK from 1982 until his death. He lived at
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From 2001 to 2012, Rausing and his family donated £886,000 to the UK's
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estimated the net worth of Rausing and his family to be $ 12 billion.
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The Guardian, 11 Apr 2002, How the richest man in Britain avoids tax
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and his wife Elisabeth (née Varenius). Rausing had two brothers,
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Honorary Knights Commander of the Order of the British Empire
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Worshipful Company of Stationers and Newspaper Makers
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Rausing studied Economics, Statistics and Russian at
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Swedish industrialist and philanthropist (1926–2019)
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European Business Forum, retrieved 4 November 2011.
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He was an honorary fellow of the 1100:Academic staff of Mälardalen University College 788:"Tetra Pak billionaire Hans Rausing dies at 93" 449:, 11 November 2011, retrieved 11 November 2011. 739:, Imperial College, retrieved 7 November 2011. 711:The Hans Rausing Endangered Languages Project 682:, Lund University, retrieved 4 November 2011. 966:, 11 April 2002, retrieved 10 November 2011. 942:, 11 April 2008, retrieved 10 November 2011. 630:International Directory of Company Histories 413:"Creating a Benchmark for Recycling Rubbish" 291: 601: 599: 552:"Sveriges näst rikaste Hans Rausing är död" 515: 426:, 20 June 2011, retrieved 7 November 2011. 31: 613: 611: 266:Hans Rausing Endangered Languages Project 209:in 1926, the second son of industrialist 831:"Honorary Knighthoods Awarded 1997–2006" 596: 376: 374: 300:, Sweden, and honorary professor at the 1075:Swedish emigrants to the United Kingdom 975: 897: 585:, Lund: Tetra Pak International, 1996 ( 511: 509: 477: 475: 1022: 608: 546: 544: 270:School of Oriental and African Studies 371: 362:, until his death on 30 August 2019. 1095:20th-century British philanthropists 506: 472: 988:from the original on 30 August 2019 910:from the original on 30 August 2019 867:from the original on 30 August 2019 798:from the original on 30 August 2019 562:from the original on 30 August 2019 541: 528:from the original on 30 August 2019 493:from the original on 30 August 2019 13: 837:from the original on 22 April 2014 673:Hans Rausing Medicine Hedersdoktor 392:from the original on 30 March 2017 167:, a company founded by his father 37:Hans Rausing with Tetra Brik, 1963 14: 1111: 1003: 976:Hansson, Anton (30 August 2019). 898:Manning, Sanchez (14 June 2012). 189:10 billion in 2011. 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Gothenburg
Lund University
Tetra Pak
Märit Rausing
Lisbet
Sigrid
Hans Kristian Rausing
Ruben Rausing
KBE
Tetra Pak
Ruben Rausing
food packaging
Gad
Forbes
US$
Gothenburg
Ruben Rausing
Gad
Lund University
Karolinska Institutet
Lund University
Sussex
Arcadia
Lisbet
Hans Rausing Endangered Languages Project
School of Oriental and African Studies
University of London
King's College London
Uppsala University

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