World / Britain pm rishi sunak wife akshata murthy income controversy over tax

Zoom News : Oct 25, 2022, 06:13 PM
Britain | After the resignation of Liz Truss, Indian-origin Rishi Sunak has been elected as the new Prime Minister of Britain. For the first time, when Sunak was contesting elections, there was a dispute about his wife's income. Actually Sunak's wife Akshata Murthy is the daughter of Narayan Murthy, co-founder of Infosys Company. In the year 2022, he got a profit of Rs 126.61 crore from Infosys shares. He holds 0.93 per cent stake in the company. According to the stock market data on Tuesday, the share price of Akshata Murthy is Rs 5,956 crore.

Why was there controversy

Actually, Akshata Murthy earns billions every year only from dividends. The dispute was that she was a citizen of India and therefore did not pay taxes in the UK. Although she used to earn billions from the company of India. It was said that his wealth was more than the total wealth of Queen Elizabeth. Regarding this, questions were raised on Rishi Sunak and his wife.

According to the report, Sunak's net worth is 730 million pounds. Once Akshata Murthy had also got into controversies over a cup of tea. Tea and biscuits were arranged for the journalists. Although the price of the cups was being said to be around 38 pounds i.e. around 3500 rupees. In such a situation, its pictures started going viral. The same was being said about Sunak that how such a rich person would be able to work at the ground level.

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