British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak sacked Conservative Party Chairman Nadhim Zahawi on Sunday for what he called a “serious breach” of the ministerial code on tax returns.
In a letter to Nadhim Zahawi, Rishi Sunak wrote that he was forced to act after promising early in his term that his government “would have integrity, professionalism and responsibility at all levels.”
The British Prime Minister this week ordered an urgent investigation into the tax returns of the Conservative Party chairman, after Nadhim Zahawi, a minister without a portfolio in the Executive, admitted over the weekend to having paid unpaid taxes of several million dollars. , related to the time was in charge of the Treasury of the country, but said that he paid shortly after detecting the tax error, admitting that it was “involuntary”.
Nadhim Zahawi, founder of the YouGov investigative site, acknowledged the dispute with the country’s tax authorities, but argued that his mistake was “careless and not deliberate.”
The British press reported that the tax settlement reached almost five million pounds (almost 5.7 million euros), debt related to the YouGov survey company, which he founded in 2000.
It was when he took office as Finance Minister last summer, a position he held between July and September, when, he explained, “questions arose” about his “tax affairs”, in particular about the shares of his company that were in the hands of his dad.
Nadhim Zahawi headed the UK Treasury in the final months of Boris Johnson’s tenure as prime minister.
The Labor Party, Britain’s main opposition party, called for Zahawi’s resignation, calling his position “untenable” and urging the prime minister to say what he knew about the case.
“All this history corrodes public trust, with a minister in charge of the nation’s finances asking the public to pay their taxes when apparently he himself has not done so,” criticized the number two of the Labor Party, Angela Rayner, at the time. .
Source: TSF
