The Guardian Article Rating

Thursday briefing: Upset at Sunak wife's tax status

Apr 08, 2022 View Original Article
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    -6% Center

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  • Policy Leaning

    6% Center

  • Politician Portrayal

    -69% Negative

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

51% : Akshata Murthy, who receives about £11.5m in annual dividends from her stake in the Indian IT services company Infosys, declares non-dom status, a scheme that allows people to avoid tax on foreign earnings.
49% : Rishi Sunak's multimillionaire wife claims non-domicile status, it has emerged, which allows her to save millions of pounds in tax on dividends collected from her family's IT business empire.
49% : Murthy, the daughter of Infosys's billionaire founder, owns a 0.93% stake in the tech firm worth approximately £690m.Tulip Siddiq, the shadow economic secretary to the treasury, said Sunak should explain how much tax his family saved while "he was putting taxes up for millions of working families".
49% : The Mirror leads with "Sunak wife tax fury", and "Sunak's wife 'avoided tax' as non-dom" is the splash in the i. The Guardian has that story on the front but leads with "PM's push for nuclear power splits Tories and angers green groups", while the Times also has a picture of the chancellor and his wife but leads with "UK to send armoured vehicles to aid Ukraine".

*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.

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