‘She is currently resident here’. That’s bull. This is without doubt her base for family life. She is resident here but benefits from rules designed for the rich to avoid tax.

Now consider the system in the USA

The United States taxes all U.S. persons on their worldwide income. A U.S. person is a citizen, green card holder (who is a legal resident but not necessarily present in the United States), and residents. A resident is anyone who spends more than 183 days a year in the United States.

If you’re living and working outside the United States, and qualify for the Foreign Earned Income Exclusion, you can earn up to $102,100 in salary during 2017 free of Federal income tax. If your salary is more than the FEIE, you will pay US tax on the excess.

Also, the FEIE only applies to your salary. You will pay US tax on capital gains, dividends, rents, royalties, and passive income no matter where you live.

Her company gained lucrative government contracts worth 50 million. Something tells me that isn't a co-incidence. Once that money is out of the country it's outside of scrutiny. MPs and their cronies use techniques such as this to kick their misdeeds and backhanders into the long grass and out of sight. They are stealing the life blood of this country and making us look like mugs. It's grotesque and makes a mockery of the working man.

Edited by BlueJay (11 Apr 2022 12.12am)

Her net worth is several hundred million. It's reported that she may have saved up to £20 million on her UK tax bill by being a non dom, which costs her £30,000 a year (non dom status). I'm not sure why we should be thanking her for picking our pocket to the tune of millions by paying the least amount possible, or comparing her favorably to normal people paying their taxes (which will be a radically higher percentage of their earnings than she has paid here).

Edited by BlueJay (11 Apr 2022 1.37am)

How respectful of the average hardworking British taxpayer.

Unfortunately the very people creating these loopholes for the wealthy are those in power. I'm not sure me firing off an email or casting a vote is really going to change a great deal at this point in the political game.

Edited by BlueJay (11 Apr 2022 1.59am)

Point being that many decent tax payers will be outraged by this. You are declaring them as idiots for doing so. That's for you. I'm calling them hard working Brits making ends meet (because they are), who understandably aren't happy about such unethical behaviour.

His wife was happy to use the furlough scheme too of course to the tune of several hundred thousand. Happy to take advantage of the hand outs, not so forthcoming about paying in.

Edited by BlueJay (11 Apr 2022 2.25am)

Surely this is not so much a case of whether rules for tax avoidance have been broken, but whether she is properly permitted to have non dom status in this country. There is a strong argument that anyone who spends the vast majority of their time in this country should be paying their taxes here. This will be what is under investigation.

Whatever the outcome it paints a poor picture of the Sunak family’s affiliation with the country where he portrays himself as the next PM.

I genuinely think the conservatives are in for a shock pretty soon as even those on the right of centre are now being critical of what they are up to.