Where's Rishi Sunak's Tax Return?
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Owen Jones
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🗓️ 25 February 2023
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
Rishi Sunak has promised over and over again to publish his tax return. He promised to do it last summer, he then promised to release it by Christmas, he then promised at the start of February to do it soon. So where the hell is it? What's he got to hide? And what does this say about a prime minister sinking without a trace?
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| 0:00.0 | Where's the issue? So that's tax return. I ask, I propose nothing, except for the fact |
| 0:05.3 | that he promised during the leadership campaign, of course, to become Tory leader and Prime |
| 0:09.1 | Minister of this glorious country, that if he did become PM, he would release his tax returns. |
| 0:13.9 | He said that is the established precedent and I'm very happy to follow the precedent. |
| 0:18.2 | Very happy. Well, he promised to release it by Christmas. That's what he said to reporters |
| 0:26.0 | at the G20 summit over in lovely, sunny Bali. It's now the 22th of February. On a |
| 0:31.5 | day of view, you've noticed, but that is actually significantly after Christmas. Christmas |
| 0:37.0 | is definitely December. Got that right, haven't I? Yeah, he's passed that particular deadline. |
| 0:42.4 | So two months on, he was asked again at the start of this month by Pierce Morgan, said |
| 0:47.7 | he'd release him soon. So why hasn't he? What's going on? How hard can it be to release |
| 0:53.0 | the tax return and what possible reason would there be for delaying it? He said that he was |
| 0:57.5 | waiting one point for formal advice from the cabinet office. Why isn't that happened? Can |
| 1:02.5 | imagine that the cabinet office would be happy to oblige. He said that before Christmas. |
| 1:08.2 | What the cabinet office doing? What they ought to. I think it's, you know, we've got reasons |
| 1:13.6 | to ask questions, haven't we? About why it hasn't appeared. Given that we already know, |
| 1:18.4 | that Sunack, thanks to his marriage, is not only the richest politician in the country, |
| 1:23.6 | but he's twice as rich as the king itself, King Charles III. We know that his wife had |
| 1:31.9 | non-dom status. She wasn't paying UK tax on her overseas income, and then the end had |
| 1:38.0 | to uton on that because it's absolutely ludicrous, but didn't backdate it. So just ended up |
| 1:44.9 | paying what she should have been paying as a citizen of this country from here on in. |
| 1:50.9 | We also learned that Sunack had a green card requiring himself to declare permanent residency |
| 1:56.3 | of the United States, and that he was reportedly listed as a beneficiary of a trust based |
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