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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Arun Advani

Nadhim Zahawi: it was the paltry size of his tax bill that should shock us

Nadhim Zahawi leaves Conservative campaign headquarters in London on 23 January 2023
The only tax Nadhim Zahawi was required to pay on £27m was £3.7m. Photograph: Leon Neal/Getty Images

Nadhim Zahawi’s tax row reveals an even bigger scandal: the rich are getting a tax break that those on low incomes can only dream of.

While the revelation that the former Conservative chair had to pay a tax penalty was shocking, the bigger concern is that the only tax he was required to pay on £27m was £3.7m. That implies an average tax rate of less than 14%, lower than the rate for someone working full-time on the minimum wage.

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