To think it sets a really bad example for the country when the PMs family have tax dodged millions

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Just that really…

Im really surprised Sunak actually made it to be prime minister considering the recent stories that have been in the news regarding his family avoiding millions of ££ in tax . I actually thought Boris would have been more likely to have been PM. (Not that he’s any better🤔)

That's not what happened.

Honestly you sound like an Ill informed conspiracy theorist.
Rishi Sunak does not unilaterally decide the Uk legislation on tax planning.

i find it odd that you think the UK government has a claim to money earned by an Indian woman in her home country.

do pay tax you aren’t legally liable for? If not why are you criticising folks for something you aren’t willing to do yourself,

Because it’s the non dom
status people have a problem with

EsmaCannonball

So how many years have YOU worked at HMRC?

Do you have expertise of the Tax legislation regarding Residency and Domicile??

That's a hard No isn't it. I can tell.

You would do better just wailing "it's not fair that she's so rich"

And the people who have a problem with it are those who haven't a clue about the Tax legislation.

Many on here from HMRC and accountancy have repeatedly posted that SHE DID NOTHING WRONG. People who KNOW the Tax laws. The arrogance in trying g to argue otherwise is puerile.

If anyone wants to get in a froth about rich people getting "unfair" Tax advantages, look up Lloyd's Underwriters.

You're welcome.

No. He didn't break the law.

Is having. A slice of cake worse?

She lives in a country that doesn't allow dual nationality, so to pay UK personal tax she'd have to become British.

So this is really about "can a UK Prime minister be married to a foreign person". Staggering that in this day and age that would even be controversial.

Has anybody mentioned the other former British prime minister with a habit of getting other people to pay for him & accepting freebies from dodgy donors. Or as soon as Liz Truss got into office she gave herself a tax cut as she was earning over £150k at the time on the PM salary. They’re all dodgy, the tories always look after themselves first.

I’m so relived we now have Rishi rather then Liz or Boris. He’s much more steady and I like that his parents and siblings work in professions which centre people and their welfare.

I don’t give two hoots about the money Rishi has. He wasn’t born into unimaginable wealth and seems to have a moral compass of some degree, unlike truss or Boris

It's a legal status. My dh was a temporary resident here. That's what you are, rather than what you claim.

People can't just march into other countries and live in them. There is a process.

Quite right. All the who ha about Rishi is just based on jealousy

And the people who have a problem with it are those who haven't a clue about the Tax legislation

That’s not fair - you can understand it perfectly well and not agree with it.

Working at HMRC doesn’t give you the arbiter of what people do and don’t fond acceptable (with - is it legal - being the absolute minimum).

FWIW I was not nuanced enough when I said I didn’t like it. If all the taxes were paid in full in India with no tricky accounting, then it seems fair enough. That has never been clarified (despite many claims to the contrary here!)

If you live in this country and are using its services (guessing his wife has private health insurance but uses our roads, benefits from our school system that educated her staff, police protection etc) you should contribute to tax here.

She did! This has been covered on this very thread.

I am aware. Once she got caught and realised it didn’t do her husband’s political ambitions any favours, that is.

She always had to pay tax on her Uk earnings and on any money remitted from abroad.

Of course it's unreasonable, the whole tax avoidance thing is unreasonable, I can't believe people are defending it. But then people are still defending the Tories, who have destroyed the country.

It was all covered on another thread but I can't do links , she was paying tax but under whatever rules there are for people with non Dom status in the UK. It is complicated
All legal.

Because it wasn’t tax avoidance

I am aware. Once she got caught and realised it didn’t do her husband’s political ambitions any favours, that is.

No. Not just once she got 'caught' 🙄.

For a start she was playing thirty thousand a year.

Of course nothing illegal took place & i couldn't care less how much tax they pay or how rich they are but you have to be a bit thick not to realise this wont go down well with the electorate and that this is a gift horse for the opposition, both in and outside of the Tory party.

Integrity, Professionalism and Accountability are his 3 watch words.

£30k is not very much when you’re the 222nd richest person in the UK!

This with bells on.

He's highly educated and not a career politician, I think he's the best person for the job