Rishi Sunak’s wife claims non-domicile status

[mattster]

True, but the public will still vote Tory as they are idiots and can't seem to grasp that the Tories have the power to remove this loophole but choose not to.

Can't argue with that. It takes a special sort of stupid to continuously elect ex-Goldman and hedge fund millionaires to power and then complain that tax avoidance loopholes aren't closed, and we seem to have plenty of them.

Possibly, but given how much money is in his family (via his wife) he clearly isn't in politics for the cash. But then you can say that for most Tory MPs in top positions (is JRM really an MP for the money?)

I do sometimes wonder why they do it. JRM I think does it as a hobby. Rishi wants the power, or perhaps his wife's family decided having a senior politician on the books would be useful. He's clearly desperate to be PM tho so when that starts to look like a totally lost cause I don't think he'll hang around too long.

But shouldn't we be separating the 2 people out here? Or are we lumping her with him as society still sees the bloke as the head of the house and the little woman should do as her husband says? We don't know that he hasn't asked her to pay UK tax, and she may well have told him to go do-one as it's her business how she runs her affairs. I know if I'd try to tell my wife how to run her financial affairs I'd be at least one testicle less now, and my good looks may have taken a bit of a kicking

The nuclear family is one financial unit, and his policy decisions or lack of are very directly affecting his family's finances. The ministerial code explicitly states that spouse's finances are fair game for scrutiny so no, I don't these attacks are out of line. It is possible that Rishi asked her to sort this out and she told him to do one - that's between them. Being the no.2 politician in the UK must come with some responsibilities and if they are not into structiny then they have a simple out.

[vetran]

But that's not the rule is it? The rule is about future intentions, and she states that she has no future intention to stay permanently in the UK but plans to go back to India. Also, No 11 is no one's permanent address as ultimately all residents there are forced to move out.

We may not think that the position is morally defensible, but it is legally defensible in the same way that contractors have been defending against IR35 for the past 20 odd years.. And whatever her marital situation, she has every right to work within the boundaries of OUR legislation.

If people don't like this they should vote for the party that will remove this loophole.

Also remember, this is not UK income. It's not from a UK company. It's not a company a UK person set up. This is very much an Indian company and she is a non-dom Indian lady.

Suck it up guys, let the green eyed monster go

Oh, and before anyone accuses me of being a Rishi fan, or a Tory ... nope, wrong.

oh deity I am agreeing with Warty!

Them the rules she is obeying them we need to change the rules.

[jamesbrown]

I have a slightly different take on this, namely that I couldn’t care less about the legal avoidance stuff, but that it has revealed Sunak to be laughably politically naive if he thought it wouldn’t blow up, especially now. There is even speculation now that he held a US green card while in office, which will likely be a resigning matter if true, given that you need to be committed to the US as your home.

[vetran]

I have a slightly different take on this, namely that I couldn’t care less about the legal avoidance stuff, but that it has revealed Sunak to be laughably politically naive if he thought it wouldn’t blow up, especially now. There is even speculation now that he held a US green card while in office, which will likely be a resigning matter if true, given that you need to be committed to the US as your home.

well if Mz Murthy (Mrs Sunak) held a green card it would prove she had intentions to leave.

[mattster]

Them the rules she is obeying them we need to change the rules.

Is she though? Do you think she has answered the question about her intention to remain in the UK truthfully? Nine years in, married to a citizen, multiple homes and business interests in the country, two children born and being educated here, no home in India.

[OwlHoot]

O/T but quite funny I thought

[jamesbrown]

well if Mz Murthy (Mrs Sunak) held a green card it would prove she had intentions to leave.

She has Indian tax domicile, not US. Regardless, the issue with Sunak holding a GC is that you need to pledge allegiance to a foreign state as your “forever home” . Again, this is politics and simple stuff like this can blow you up; any veteran politician would know this.

[Whorty]

oh deity I am agreeing with Warty!

Them the rules she is obeying them we need to change the rules.

Sorry .... probably time we find a different thread so we can argue again

Tw@t

[AtW]

Ministers and even MPs jobs aren't permanent. Every political career ends in failure.

And?

It's not like she is forced to sell her only house in India and burn all bridges.

Anybody who is more than 180 days in this country should pay taxes, in fact plenty of precedents when people who only visited this country for week or two were forced to pay taxes here because they had strong connection to the UK.

[mattster]

I have a slightly different take on this, namely that I couldn’t care less about the legal avoidance stuff, but that it has revealed Sunak to be laughably politically naive if he thought it wouldn’t blow up, especially now. There is even speculation now that he held a US green card while in office, which will likely be a resigning matter if true, given that you need to be committed to the US as your home.

Yes, he's proved much more politically naive than he seemed when he burst onto the scene as chancellor. Not just these stupid skeletons in the closet, but also some of the economic decisions he has made recently. Yes, there isn't an infinite money tree, but he is now regularly being outed as the one pushing back against e.g. a more generous response to the energy price rises - an easy way to make BJ look like the good guy and Rishi as the miser. I'm also not getting the impression that he has fully (or even faintly) grasped just how big a shock is coming with the cost of living crisis over the next couple of years, for which, rightly or wrongly (but unavoidably), he is going to end up getting much of the blame.