BBC: Chancellor Rishi Sunak is facing calls to "come clean" on his family's financial affairs after it emerged his wife benefits from a tax-saving scheme.
Millionaire Akshata Murty has non-dom status, meaning she does not have to pay UK tax on income earned abroad.
Her spokeswoman said Ms Murty pays all legally required tax in the UK.
But Labour said it was not right that the chancellor and his family were "sheltering" from UK taxes.
Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer said Mr Sunak had "very serious questions to answer" and called for "complete transparency".
"If it now transpires that his wife has used schemes to reduce her tax, while he's been increasing taxes on working people, that's breathtaking hypocrisy," he said. He said it "just goes to show just how out of touch this chancellor is" at a time when taxes were increasing for millions of workers. » | Thursday, April 7, 2022
This is utter hypocrisy! For the wife of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the man who sets the tax rates, to have a wife who avoids paying Her Majesty’s taxes is appalling in the extreme. Apart from anything else, the optics of this are terrible. Sunak should, and hopefully will, pay the price of these shenanigans. This couple clearly want the penny and the bun! © Mark
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