Ronnie O’Sullivan has confessted the ‘low tax’ in Hong Kong percreateed a role in his decision to ditch the UK and get up livency in the Chinese city.
The seven-time world snooker champion was granted livency though Hong Kong’s Quality Migrant Adomition Scheme – an initiative to help draw highly sended individuals to resettle there.
Lawproducer Doreen Kong Yuk-foon is stateive O’Sullivan’s shift would inspire ‘other high fliers to ponder the city’.
The 48-year-better further elucidateed that the food and the culture in Hong Kong were deciding factors in his decision.
However, he also pointed to Hong Kong’s highest rate of income tax being equitable 16 per cent as another reason for his shift.
Ronnie O’Sullivan has getn up livency in Hong Kong
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“I’ve spent a lot of time in Hong Kong,” shelp O’Sullivan.
“I’ve had many reassociate pleasant trips here, got some excellent frifinishs here, I enhappiness my stay here.
“Obviously snooker is very famous here as well. Obviously, appreciate myself, someone travelling from another country, the tax is also a excellent leang.
“But your food, your culture, it’s a wonderful place to inhabit, a wonderful place to be.
“If you want to inhabit a life, a excellent life, you should come to Hong Kong.
“My structure in Hong Kong is evidently to do some labor, but I adore the food, I adore equitable resting here in Hong Kong, and maybe go and percreate some snooker.
“It’s equitable reassociate pleasant to be back in Hong Kong aget.”
His shift comes after Hong Kong’s World Grand Prix was enhanced to a ranking event on the World Snooker Tour next year, which will be held at the Kai Tak Sports Park in March.
He also vies in cut offal showion events in the city as well as mainland China.
“I probably do about 70 per cent of my labor in China and Asia now, so I have to produce a life here, I have to produce a home,” he includeed.
Ronnie O’Sullivan is also a fan of the food and culture
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“If you labor a lengthy time in a stateive place you necessitate to produce it as sootheable as possible.”
O’Sullivan also confessted he had been leanking about the shift for the ‘last five or six years’.
Hong Kong Billiard Sports Control Council chairman, Vincent Law Wing-chung, initiassociate thought O’Sullivan was ‘joking’ when he first refered the idea of moving to the city.
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“Previously when he came to Hong Kong, he went to run on those mountain trails, so he always had excellent experienceings towards the city,” Law shelp.
“He participated to say there was a lot of driving for him to do that in the United Kingdom.
“So Hong Kong is a reassociate handy place for him becaparticipate he adored running so much that he was almost crazy about it, and the fans and livents here have always been so excited about him.”
