Minister Rishi Sunak’s wife’s Infosys link leads to a new row over taxes

The wife of British finance minister Rishi Sunak is treated as non-domiciled for UK tax purposes but pays taxes in Britain on all her UK income, according to what her spokeswoman said on Wednesday.

Akshata Murthy is the daughter of Narayana Murthy, the co-founder of IT services company Infosys, and she owns around 0.93% of the company. The tax status means she would not pay taxes in Britain on dividends from the Indian business.

The news, which prominently featured in Britain’s newspapers on Thursday, comes as the government is putting up taxes in for millions of people. Tulip Siddiq, a lawmaker and Treasury spokeswoman in the opposition Labour Party, said Sunak should say whether he had benefited from his wife’s tax status.