Notable Differences in Current Laws
Despite the heavy English influences on Manx law, increasingly the island has 'gone its own way'.
In the past there have been key differences on
- the death penalty for murder (abolished in the UK in 1973, on the Isle of Man in 1993 – although after 1973 it was the policy of the UK to block all Manx executions)
- women's suffrage (1866 on Mann, 1928 in the UK)
- judicial birching (abolished 1947 in the UK, on Mann in 2000 - a 13-year-old boy, who was convicted of robbing another child of 10p, was the last recorded juvenile case in May 1971)
- sodomy (legalised 1967 in the UK, 1992 on Mann)
- speed limits - while the Island has speed limit laws (and indeed in general has road traffic laws much like the UK) more than half its roads are de-restricted - that is to say they have no speed limit.
- taxation - technically the taxation laws are relatively similar; however the taxation rates in the Isle of Man are far lower. There is 0% Corporation Tax, 0% Capital Gains Tax, 0% inheritance tax, a 20% top rate of income tax - which is capped so a resident earning 10 million would be paying just the same as a resident earning 1 million.
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