Tue 11 Apr 2023:
UK’s Labour Party has gone on the offensive and has targetted Conservative PM Rishi Sunak and his wife Akshata Murty over a tax loophole. The Labour has been alleging that Murty benefitted in her tax payments due to a loophole for people who hold non-domiciled status.
In its latest poster, the Labour accused PM Sunak of “raising taxes for working people” while his family “benefitted from the non-dom tax loophole.”
“The Tories have raised taxes 24 times since 2019, leaving the British people facing the highest tax burden in 70 years,” the poster on Twitter reads.
“They refuse to close the non-dom tax loophole. A Labour government would freeze your council tax this year, paid for by a proper windfall tax on oil and gas giants,” it adds.
A Labour government would freeze council tax this year, paid for by a proper windfall tax on oil and gas giants.
And we’d scrap the Tories’ non-dom tax loophole. pic.twitter.com/tBkNAhKPtA
— The Labour Party (@UKLabour) April 11, 2023
Sir Keir Starmer told his shadow cabinet that he makes “no apologies at all” for the controversial campaign, and that the focus will move this week from the Prime Minister’s record on crime to the cost of living.
The latest social media ad, featuring a picture of Sunak in the same style as the earlier ones, says: “Do you think it’s right to raise taxes for working people when your family benefitted from a tax loophole? Rishi Sunak does.”
Sir Keir also said, “Rishi Sunak is the chief architect of choices prioritising the wealthiest and of the Government’s failure to get a grip of the economy and get growth going,” the Labour leader wrote in a letter to his colleagues.
The issue of Akshata Murty’s non-domiciled status had hit headlines last year after British press carried it last year. At that time, Sunak had termed these reports ‘unpleasant smears’ but Murty eventually gave up the status.
Sunak’s wife, Akshata Murty, was revealed last year to hold the special tax status, reportedly saving her millions, but has since said she will pay UK taxes on all her worldwide income.
Last week the Labour Party caused uproar even from its own ranks when it said that PM Sunak did not think child sex abusers should go to jail. Many from Labour Party had branded this ‘gutter politics’
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