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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Rowena Mason Whitehall editor

Tories ask HMRC to investigate whether Nigel Farage owes tax on £5m gift

Nigel Farage
Nigel Farage said over the weekend that the £5m gift was ‘totally undeclarable in every single way’. Photograph: Joe Giddens/PA

The Conservatives have asked HMRC to investigate whether Nigel Farage should have paid tax on the £5m gift he received from the crypto billionaire Christopher Harborne.

The party chair, Kevin Hollinrake, wrote to the tax authorities questioning whether it was a payment to compensate him for running to be an MP.

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