Possibly the most successful singer/songwriter of his generation. Not particularly my cup of tea, but I can certainly acknowledge the massive amount of talent.
Getting interesting. By Monday morning there’ll be evidence that he owns a Winnebago and once ate a baby.
I might be going against the grain here, but lately the term "wealthy" seems to be a dirty word, there seems to be an awful lot of dislike towards people who are wealthy, the latest being Sunak and his wealthy wife........ Contrary to what the Champagne Socialist Emily Thornbury said this morning, it is not about Sunak's wife's residency status it's about her Non Domicile Status and it's the UK HMRC who determine whether or not a person is Domiciled or Non Domiciled. Presumably she is what is termed "Resident/Ordinarily Resident" in the UK for Tax purposes, meaning she pays tax on all her UK income and being Non Dom she'll pay UK tax on any Froreign Income she remits into the UK. If that income has been taxed overseas and there is a double taxation agreement between the UK and the other Country then a tax credit is applied for any tax paid...... Non Dom is a complicated concept..... this is from the UK HMRC Website.... Working out your domicile Your domicile’s usually the country your father considered his permanent home when you were born. It may have changed if you moved abroad and you do not intend to return. If she considers that India is and will remain her "permanent" home and she intends to return there in the future there is no real reason for her not to be Non Dom....... However much others view it as wrong she and HMRC are the only ones who can decide her Domicile status and as far as I can see she's not done anything wrong.... As I said earlier there is nothing wrong with a person being wealthy, especially one who's self made wealthy.......
i think it's because she lives here, has been living here, plans to "go" back to india when her parents are old to look after them. So all in all she'll probably be here for 40 years, living in the uk, enjoying uk lifestyle and for all intents purposes might as well be a full time citizen. Any other british citizen would be paying taxes on passive income they earn abroad (e.g. the dividends from the shares her dads company doles out). When your husband is the chancellor of the exchequer and is making everyone pay "their" equitable share in NI, energy bills and everything else then of course his wife who is essentially avoiding tax on a technicality is going to be looked at.
Actually, for me it’s about Sunak. His job is to look after the UK’s finances, balance the books and (as far as I’m concerned) minimise the amount of dosh that I have to pay across so I can spend it on coke and hookers. This requires ‘doing the detail’. He’s not an idiot, so I assume he ‘did the detail’ which means he’d have been fully aware of the tax and domicile status of his missus and how this might be perceived by the electorate during extremely testing times. He’s Chancellor of the Exchequer, so the electorate doesn’t care that it’s within the rules that Spock’s wife pays very little tax in the UK. Perception matter more than rules in Public Office, so (for me) this is very relevant. #WeDeserveBetter
Don't let a few facts get in the way of a general whinge......... seeing she's only 42 years old and after leaving India spent many years in the States where she met Sunak and apparently lived in India for a number of years after marrying Sunak....... they came to the UK around 2013 or 2014......... So she's only been here at most 9 or 10 years, less than a quarter of her life........ In the circumstances it's not unreasonable for her to consider her home is India...... Maybe her Domicile status should be looked at, but then again it's reported that 10% of London's population are also Non Domiciled, so HMRC will be busy looking into each and every case.........
Problem is the government have created a situation, where they are forcibly putting every UK citizen in debt by £200. I don't want it, but I don't have a choice, so Mr Sunak cannot be surprised when those very same citizens scrutinise the finances of his private life. The Chancellor makes a point of not wanting to help non working claimants of Universal Credit or disability benefits, so yeah his Mrs is getting ripped on her finances, because the public wish to understand how much they do actually understand about poverty. Clearly looking at his wealth and that of his wife, they won't be struggling this winter, so salty Rishi tears, wins no votes with me.
