To pay the govt 30k to avoid paying 4million?!

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Sorry - please can someone explain to me how this works? So, the chancellor’s wife (Mrs Sunak) has apparently paid £30k to be registered as a non dom so she then doesn’t have to pay the govt £4million(!!!!) in tax🤷🏼‍♀️ - I just don’t get on what level this should ever be ok, let alone if you’re married to a serving minister….who is in charge of supposedly making sure everyone is taxed fairly!! WTAF. What fools we are to allow this sort of total bollocks to take place whilst more people than ever are relying on food banks. If they shouldn’t feel total shame someone tell me why!!! - Surely there’s a finite time you can remain if you have no intention of staying in the Country and are using this to (MASSIVELY) reduce your tax bill?

@mickeypillow
He has not and never will know what it is like to live on the bread line.

Has any chancellor ever been in this position?

@anotheranon22

I hope you all follow the same morals and never pay a tradesman cash in hand or receive cash in hand for any service.

I never pay cash in hand and my cleaner was a bit put out when she asked for cash in hand rather than bank transfer. If I did, I would be lining both our pockets by enabling her to tax avoid.

Are you really comparing a cleaner possibly making an extra quid an hour (assuming she even makes more than the tax threshold of 12 and a half grand a year) with that Sunak woman snaking her way out of paying 4 million quid tax a year? Only one of these is lining her pockets - the other is probably just trying to stay afloat. Either you're very ignorant or very stupid to think there is any kind of comparison to be made there.

No it’s not a comparison. The cleaner is breaking the law and evading tax. Sunak is keeping within the law and avoiding tax. They also probably pay more tax than all of the posters on this thread put together.

Here’s the thing, if you don’t like the law get it changed. Get elected to parliament, or canvas for a party who will change the tax.

I think the tax rules are very poor. I would like to see a universal income, paid for by all. I think it extremely unlikely that I would get elected as nobody wants to pay tax - not just the super rich, who can leave the UK if taxed too much- everyone. However, I do not blame people who pay tax according to the law, but do blame people who break it.

@Witchlight There is zero evidence she pays tax in India. In fact she’s been very careful to say ‘international tax’ which suggests she pays it in the Mauritius.
The India thing is a red herring.

You can be British and be non dom.
I don’t care whether she wants to look after her aged Indian parents or not. All that is guff. All that patriotic Indian bs and she doesn’t actually pay tax there.
I agree with the ‘what she has done is entirely legal’ bit but the Indian part of the story is nonsense.

(Ex Indian citizen here- have read the rules and filed all the paperwork in the UK and US…).

@Ozanj

This is a rule that applies to all rich Indians who reside here. It’s because the UK and India have a tax agreement & the UK (like many other countries) decided to let India be the one to take the tax returns for obvious reasons. Indian Tax is really high and she would def have paid her share in those.

The arguments against her are just racist claptrap from ignorant ppl who dont understand how the tax system works.

This absolutely!

There is no ‘rule’ that applies to Indians. Rich or not.
Lots of countries don’t allow dual nationality btw. Japan for instance. India is not unique.
You can be an Indian national, resident elsewhere and NOT be non dom (aka me for most of my twenties) because you don’t have 30 grand to spare on a tax arrangement.

This is not a ‘rule for rich Indians.’ This is a rule for rich PEOPLE that they can exploit. Her being Indian has very little to do with it. She could have a British passport and be non dom.

I think its madness that the law allows her to decide that she will be pay her tax in Mauritius (assuming what some of the posters above are saying). She's probably never set foot there, never mind having much of a business interest in the country. If true, she's also screwing the Indian people out of tax as well as those in the UK. Its abhorrent.

@mjf981 That’s what tax havens are for…
Perfectly legal but morally dodgy.

You will see neither she nor Rishi have ever ever claimed that she pays tax in India.