During all the time nobody noticed, she was living large and paying zero taxes on a billion dollar revenue stream.

Then, when she got caught in the spotlight, presto, her access to taxable revenue disappears, so she won't be paying taxes either.

Poor husband, he's now going to be the sole earner for the household. Does he pay taxes in his position ?

Oh, and can we get a kaching! icon ?

1. There is no “billion dollar revenue stream”. 2. She paid all the taxes that are due where they are due - in this case India. 3. If she had done anything wrong, HMRC would be working on it. They are not.

Everything Adolf did by the laws of his own making were legal.

Rishi might be legally correct but that’s he only place he has a leg to stand on. Unless you’re in the club making a killing off tax dodging yourself, why would you defend them?

1. She is a billionaire, that requires a revenue stream.

2. Who says taxes are due in India? She is a UK resident, she is tax resident in the UK, and her status is "non-domiciled" - that doesn't mean she's an Indian tax resident. "Non-domiciled" is just a way of reducing a UK tax bill with a flimsy excuse, basically a hangover from the British empire that is still alive today.

Neither her or her husband has categorically stated there is income in India, they've only talked about "international income".

3. Seriously?

"Poor husband, he's now going to be the sole earner for the household."

Infosys are pulling out of Russia and she's paying "more taxes" in the UK, can you explain how she will have no income?

she was officially domiciled in India and therefore did not pay UK taxes on income earned in other countries. Doing so was legal

And that's the problem: laws were voted everywhere to make tax evasion possible.

A few weeks ago, the living mummies populating the French Senate (where the opposition is in majority) claimed in the newspapers it was a scandal that a consultants company hired by the government wasn't paying taxes in France. In your opinion, do you think they immediately proposed a new law to ensure tax evasion become not feasible?

It's all political games. Our elites claim to be shocked the wealthiest ones don't pay their fair share but as the latter finance the former, nothing ever change.

International tax legislation was structured to prevent double taxation, i.e. paying tax on the same income in two jurisdictions.

But this only works well when all tax jurisdictions have similar rules, and apply those rules fairly. What we have at the moment are different tax rules, and a way that multi-nationals have the ability to move money around through cross-border internal purchases and licensing charges so that the money gets declared in the lowest tax region.

And when you have a very large company dominated by small groups of owners or shareholders, it's quite possible for individuals to alter the tax affairs of their companies to maximize their personal post-tax income.

But be realistic. Where someone can find a way of legally minimizing the tax that they pay, they probably will do it. You use ISAs and payment into pension funds, yes? It's not illegal, and it's only really marginally immoral. The problem here is really the internal tax legislation, and the fact that some people are able to save more tax than it costs to pay the accountants who are looking for the gaps.

The whole non-dom status was designed by the last Labor government (surprised?) to attract rich foreign people to live in this country without the fear of the tax authorities digging into their tax affairs to see whether there is a buck or two more to extract. It's almost like a legalized bribe paid to the UK tax man (it costs to declare non-dom status). The time to object to this was when the law was being debated, not because there's some rich person you want to smack because you don't like them. That just looks like taxation cake-eating.

Richi Sunak's wife is being used as a scapegoat here to try to damage a UK politician. Nothing more, nothing less.

The same stupidity here apparently.

So she is rich. Her father started Infosys, which is about 25 times the size of Marks and Spencer. That’s how she is rich. I’d say deal with it. Complain to your dad that he didn’t start a successful company.

Infosys paid out $1.2 billion in dividends last year. So she made some money. Deal with it.

I could have stayed non-domiciled when I moved to England. Didn’t seem worth it to me. If I had huge income from India I’d have thought about it. Don’t like it? Change the laws. But everyone is free to arrange their taxes in the most efficient legal way. As all contractors reading this site will appreciate. So guys, deal with it.

She had no influence on Infosys’ business. They have 290,000 employees, 100 in Russia, so that’s about $400,000 profit from Russia. Her portion of that would be $3,500. But this war is less than 2 months old, so one sixth is $600. Yes, that’s positively evil.

Tax accountants are also cheaper there, and bribing the authorities to avoid any check probably too....

Maybe it's time to stop offshoring too much to India?

I think if this had happened in isolation, where Mr.Sunak's wife was a non-dom even with 3 houses in the UK to not stay in, it'd be a storm in a tea cup.

But none of this happens in isolation. We've had over 2 years of COVID where all of us made sacrifices to protect our loved ones and to uphold the law set out by these bastards in the first place. My wife couldn't hug her granny for the last time before she died because my wife didn't want to give her COVID (she never had it). A friend of mine died alone in a hospital ward, his 8 year old son was never able to go on to the ward to see him.

I'm not a royalist - which I know is a shock given the name - but when it came out about these parties and the sheer nonchalance the Conservatives have shown to the rules they put in, I thought about Elizabeth sat there on her own mourning the death of her husband. Regardless of titles, she herself is someone's wife, someone's mother, someone's grandmother and she followed the rules. While her government decided "Fuck this let's have a party".

With Infosys themselves, I think any decent enough company (well, any company with a decent PR guy) pulled out of Russia the moment the tanks rolled in to Ukraine. Even if it weren't an immediate action, they at least set out a framework to detail how and when they would leave. Infosys have only now decided Russia is bad and should leave? Bullshit.

Fuck Infosys. Fuck the Government. Fuck Boris. Let every person who caress deeply about the Queen remember herself being made to mourn alone while that big blonde gobshite partied.

I don't think this attempt to to be thought of as a bunch of great philanthropists is going to work so well after it's taken them so long to painfully drag this penny out of their own pockets. Their indifference to morality and desire to keep the money flowing in at all costs has been well noted now, and they've realised far too late for this donation-as-PR-exercise to wash away the reputational damage it's caused.