The row about Rishi Sunak’s wife, Akshata Murty’s non-dom tax status, which became a row about both of their tax statuses after it emerged that the couple had recently held green cards, has been taking up column inches against stiff competition.
It’s also been firmly in Twitter’s gaze.
"Take my wife's name out of your HMRC database."
— THE SECRET TORY
(@secrettory12) April 8, 2022
Isn't too much to ask that this govt has just one month without something nefarious emerging about its members' conduct?
— Sir Brian Moore (@brianmoore666) April 8, 2022
Kit Malthouse talks about how ‘distressing’ it’s been for Rishi Sunak’s family with all these revelations about his wife’s tax status (not to mention Russian business dealings) emerging #SundayMorning pic.twitter.com/TZbZjGkigz
— Toby Earle
(@TobyonTV) April 10, 2022
Come now, who amongst us doesn’t have a wife legally domiciled for tax in one country, while we act as chancellor in another country, while holding a work permit in a third country, and getting paid from a trust fund in a fourth country.
Relatable!
— . (@twlldun) April 8, 2022
The government: "you guys have to pay tax that will probably go up every year but we will spend it on important services for you maybe if we don't spend it on nonsense first"
Normal people: "Ok but will rich people be doing this too?"
Government: "Absolutely fucking not"— TechnicallyRon (@TechnicallyRon) April 8, 2022
my wife once had to pay tax on all her UK income because people found out about her non dom status which was interfering with my job to stop people paying their gas bills pic.twitter.com/Tk7HP5r7z4
— dave
(@davemacladd) April 9, 2022
The beleaguered chancellor attempted to shove the matter into the black hole of Whitehall enquiries.
Today I have written to the Prime Minister asking him to refer my ministerial declarations to the Independent Advisor on Ministers’ Interests.
I have always followed the rules and I hope such a review will provide further clarity. pic.twitter.com/JjVRDFJELl
— Rishi Sunak (@RishiSunak) April 10, 2022
But he went a step further, demanding to know how his family’s tax arrangements had made it into the public domain in the first place.
Chancellor Rishi Sunak demands inquiry into leak over wife Akshata Murty's tax affairs https://t.co/J2KuW8xHjN
— BBC Politics (@BBCPolitics) April 10, 2022
There’s nothing that can put to bed any suggestions that your priorities might be questionable quite like focusing on who grassed you up rather than whether what you did was wrong.
Rishi Sunak still does not get it. The issue is not the leak. The problem is that he and his wife thought that they could get away with dodging UK tax in the first place. https://t.co/livnwaWJLD
— Diane Abbott MP (@HackneyAbbott) April 10, 2022
Some people thought a certain tatty-headed self-promoter might have thrown his political opponent under the bus of public opinion, others that Sunak had shot himself in the foot by throwing more talking points into the mix – but all were certain he deserved to be dragged for it.
So they did.
1.
I’ll give you a clue: the leak came from a resident of 10 Downing Street that’s not me… #kitileaks https://t.co/LEwQI4DVZ8
— Larry the Cat (@Number10cat) April 10, 2022
2.
I demand an inquiry into how I would have got away with it if it weren’t for you meddling kids https://t.co/vOBj61miDX
— James Felton (@JimMFelton) April 10, 2022
3.
Rishi Sunak is quite right – the important issue here is not the hypocrisy or the tax avoidance, it's who snitched on them. https://t.co/SqOCwzjoyW
— Parody Boris (@Parody_PM) April 10, 2022
4.
Clever of him to have found a way to keep the story in the headlines for longer while also making him look like he’s more preoccupied with his wife’s tax affairs than he is with the cost of living crisis for ordinary people https://t.co/qZZWtMK6sc
— Alex von Tunzelmann (@alexvtunzelmann) April 10, 2022
5.
I hear Sue Gray isn’t up to much https://t.co/uJBq7MkFsO
— Liam Thorp (@LiamThorpECHO) April 10, 2022
6.
The arrogance of Sunak now demanding a taxpayer-funded inquiry into who revealed his wife doesn’t pay tax is breathtaking. If an inquiry, let it focus on his US Green Card – did he retain it fraudulently? – and how his wife was granted non-dom status. https://t.co/V5N6ZyVcOe
— Tim Walker (@ThatTimWalker) April 10, 2022
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