Can you still be the boy next door and live in a Swiss tax
haven?    • The Guardian,   • Jump to comments ()  So Lewis
Hamilton, in a year when your earnings are reported to have
exceeded £1m, what is it that attracts you to the tax haven of
Switzerland? With the kind of bluster that sportsmen specialise
in, Hamilton has cited press intrusion, rather than tax
avoidance, as his reason for leaving the UK. "You lose your
ability to go to places. You really struggle to live a normal
life ... I can't go to the cinema. I go to the bathroom in a
petrol station and people come in there for autographs. It's
tough but I knew that was going to be the case," says Hamilton.
In Switzerland, it's different, apparently. "People don't go up
to you - they give you your space," he said. So, it's just a
happy coincidence that your new chosen home is a tax haven?
"Higher taxes maybe interest the management but not me," he
said.  Hamilton, pet, we know you're earning a big fat wedge,
and we don't begrudge you a cent, but next you