British Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak and his wife Akshata Murthy. | POOL
British Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak’s wife, Akshata Murthy, holds non-domiciled status in the UK, meaning she doesn’t pay British taxes on her foreign earnings. This sentence rather caught my eye when it appeared in the British press. Also, I found this quote rather interesting as well: (Minister) Jacob Rees-Mogg has refused to apologise for calling the Downing Street partygate scandal “fluff” and “fundamentally trivial”. We are talking about senior ministers in the British government and to be honest while they have done nothing wrong they should really know better and set an example. If the Chancellor of the Exchequer is asking the great British public to pay a sizeable part of their total earnings in taxes then his wife should do the same. It is the honourable thing. She is not breaking the law but it is more a question of fair play and setting an example.
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Critics acknowledge she has done nothing illegal. She pays U.K. tax as needed, £30k dispensation fee and pays her taxes in India as required by the Indian citizen she is. What do people want, her being told what to do with her own income by her husband. Keep her bare foot and pregnant I don’t think she’s that type of girl folks. The political critics have no alternative ideas so attack his family. Just shows how vacuous the U.K. politicians of opposition are along with the left press are. 200 women and babies die or are left with poor health outcomes in nhs hospital due to staff dogma and poor practices,how’s that for a priority
The Uk government are the most incompetent and corrupt ever! You're talking about a PM who doesn't know the difference between truth or lies, thinks it's OK to take his girlfriend on government business and give her contracts, accept money from Russian criminals for favours, accept money to decorate his flat (probably for more favours), have parties as his flat when over people can't visit dying relatives in hospital etc etc etc A total disgrace!
Jason, how about commenting on local affairs, we can see what is going on with the British Press and make our minds up, can I remind you this is the Mallorca Bulletin.