Akshata Murty’s non-dom status is a choice not an obligation – tax experts

Akshata Murty’s spokeswoman suggested that because she is an Indian citizen she must be treated as a non-dom for UK tax. Photograph: Infosys

This is the government form that the chancellor’s wife Akshata Murty will have filled in to apply for non-domiciled status in order to avoid paying UK tax on tens of millions in dividends collected from her family’s Indian IT business empire.