Over the non-domicile status of the wife of Rishi Sunak, Akshata Murty, she has claimed she would pay UK taxes.

Her father built the Indian IT giant Infosys, from which she got £11.6m in dividends last year.

No UK tax is due on her abroad income since she is not a UK resident.

It was her husband’s “distraction,” she told the BBC. Her decision to amend her tax arrangements comes after opposition parties accused the chancellor of hypocrisy, claiming Mr Sunak’s family is profiting from rising living costs.

The BBC thinks Ms Murty’s non-dom status saved her £2.1m a year in UK tax.

“It has become evident that many do not feel it is compatible with my husband’s function as chancellor,” Ms Murty said of her tax arrangements.

I respect the British idea of justice and do not want my tax position to bother my spouse or my family.”

A non-dom lives in the UK but claims another nation as their permanent residence.

Mr Sunak accuses opponents of “smearing” his wife.

He further stated that she is eligible to employ the non-dom arrangement because she is Indian and wants to return home to care for her parents.

Ms Murty will keep her Indian citizenship and non-dom status, allowing her family to avoid paying £280 million in inheritance tax in the UK.

Apparently she spends £30,000 a year to keep her non-dom status.

Ms Murty said in her statement that she would now pay UK tax “on all my international income, including dividends and capital gains, wherever they originate”.

“I do it because I want to, not because I have to. These new rules take effect immediately and apply to the current tax year (2021-22), “Added she

MP Louise Haigh claimed Rishi Sunak “wasn’t transparent.”

According to the shadow transport secretary, everything was lawful.

Many people will question if it was ethical and appropriate for the Chancellor of the Exchequer to benefit from a tax plan that permitted his household to pay much less, perhaps tens of millions of pounds.”

“Doing anything only because you’ve been found out isn’t good enough,” said Lib Dem Treasury spokesman Christine Jardine.

While one former cabinet minister expressed “moderate compassion” for Mr Sunak, he said that any leadership contender, announced or not, should anticipate this.

He was naive if he assumed families were “safe”.

It might be as damaging to the chancellor as partygate was for Mr Johnson.

It was all about alienating voters. Children’s birthday parties couldn’t happen under lockdown, but drunken get-togethers did.

So did his wife, who didn’t pay UK tax on part of her own earnings.

Rishi Sunak claimed it was unjust to criticise his wife because she was a “”I’m an elected politician”, he remarked. So I joined up for it.”

On the same day, it was found that the pair had green cards for almost a year after Mr Sunak became chancellor in 2020.

On his first US trip as a UK minister, he surrendered his green card in October 2017.

The White House press secretary, Jen Psaki, declined to comment on the situation when asked about it at a daily news briefing.

Mr Sunak’s representative claimed he had submitted US tax returns when he had his green card “in complete compliance”.

Ten has denied that its workers are leaking negative material about Mr Sunak to the media.

And during a Downing Street press conference, PM Boris Johnson said: “If such briefings exist, they are not coming from No 10 and their origin is unknown. I think Rishi is doing an amazing job.”