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==Honours and UK tax status== Hans Rausing received an honorary doctorate from Lund University.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/business-49530444|title=Tetra Pak billionaire Hans Rausing dies at 93|date=30 August 2019|access-date=30 August 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190830232257/https://www.bbc.com/news/business-49530444|archive-date=30 August 2019|url-status=live|work=BBC News}} Retrieved 30 August 2019</ref> He was a visiting professor at [[Mälardalens Högskola]], Sweden, and honorary professor at the [[University of Dubna]], Russia.<ref>[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb4779/is_12/ai_n28975205/pg_3/?tag=content;col1 Hans Rausing] European Business Forum, retrieved 4 November 2011</ref> He was made an honorary Knight Commander of the [[Order of the British Empire]] (KBE) in 2006.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://data.parliament.uk/DepositedPapers/Files/DEP2009-2154/DEP2009-2154.doc|title=Honorary Knighthoods Awarded 1997–2006|access-date=1 June 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140422054211/http://data.parliament.uk/DepositedPapers/Files/DEP2009-2154/DEP2009-2154.doc|archive-date=22 April 2014|url-status=live}}</ref> He was an honorary fellow of the [[Isaac Newton Institute]], Cambridge, and in 2011 was made an honorary freeman and liveryman at the [[Worshipful Company of Stationers and Newspaper Makers]], London.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.newton.ac.uk/about/fellowships/honorary|title=Honorary Fellowship of the Isaac Newton Institute | Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences|website=www.newton.ac.uk|access-date=30 August 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190830185726/https://www.newton.ac.uk/about/fellowships/honorary|archive-date=30 August 2019|url-status=live}} Retrieved 30 August 2019</ref> 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.<ref>[https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2002/apr/11/politics.economy] The Guardian, 11 Apr 2002, How the richest man in Britain avoids tax</ref> 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.
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