Most of the income is private
British Prime Minister Sunak earns millions in income
February 9, 2024, 9:07 p.m
Even before he took office, many Britons criticized the wealth of Sunak and his wife. The majority of it actually goes back to his wife. But the Prime Minister himself doesn’t earn badly either, as his tax return shows.
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak recently earned more than 2.2 million pounds (2.58 million euros) a year and paid a good 500,000 pounds in taxes for it. This emerges from the tax return for the 2022/23 financial year (April 5th), which the conservative politician published. The Daily Mirror newspaper reported that his income had increased by around £300,000 compared to the previous year.
According to the letter from his tax advisors, Sunak received a good 84,000 pounds in diet for his MP mandate and 55,358 pounds in salary as a member of the government. By far the largest share was capital gains from an investment fund: Sunak received almost 1.8 million pounds here. There was also a further £300,000 in dividends and interest.
The former investment banker is considered the richest prime minister in British history. At the beginning of October 2023, the Sunday Times newspaper estimated the fortune of the 43-year-old and his wife Akshata Murty at a total of 529 million pounds. But that is largely due to Murty: she holds just under one percent of the shares in the Indian IT giant Infosys, which her father co-founded. Sunak has repeatedly come under fire for his wife’s financial interests because, among other things, he did not disclose his holdings in a company that benefited from state funding.
The prime minister’s wealth always plays a role in political debate. The couple, who have two daughters together, own a listed house in Sunak’s northern England constituency of Richmond, as well as two houses in posh west London and one in Santa Monica, California.