There's a whole drama kicking off here in the UK right now over the tax status of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Rishi Sunak's, wife.
She 'happens to be' the daughter of the founder of Infosys, a mega-Indian company, and her shareholding alone is worth over £500m (for less than 1%). This has entitled her to dividends of over £11m in the past year and it has come out that she is registered as "Non domiciled" for UK tax purposes.
I won't go into the ins-and-outs of non-dom status here in the UK (as it's complex) but the spooky bit to observe (as a tax advisor, myself) is the sheer amount of technical inaccuracies published by so-called "spokespersons" and the media. It's shocking and really quite scary.
It doesn't help when senior politicians and the media refer to non-dom status as a "scheme" as this implies all sorts of dodginess!
Now I am not going to get into the ethics of whether non-dom UK tax treatment is right but from what I can see, she ain't done nothing wrong under the current rules.
Quite where this leaves ole Rishi when it comes down to (any) parliamentary debates about the pros and cons of non-dom status, then this is a tricky one...He might just find he's on sticky ground as he has a potential 'conflict of interest' (but that's a whole separate debate)...