What are the tax allegations facing Nadim Zahawi and what have he and Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said? Here’s what we know so far.
The Conservative chairman says he made a “careless and not deliberate” error according to HM Revenue & Customs , but he is now facing calls to resign.
On 6 July 2022 – the day after Mr Zahawi was made chancellor by the then-Prime Minister Boris Johnson – The Independent reported that Mr Zahawi had been the subject of an investigation by the National Crime Agency and HMRC.In a statement on 10 July, he said news stories suggesting he had been investigated by agencies, including HMRC, were “inaccurate, unfair and […] clearly smears”.
Mr Zahawi then issued a statement the following day which said that he co-founded YouGov 22 years ago, but that he “didn’t have the money or the expertise to go it alone” so he asked his father for guidance. A ‘deliberate but not concealed’ inaccuracy is when someone gives HMRC a document that they know contains an inaccuracy, and ‘deliberate and concealed’ means a document contains a deliberate inaccuracy and steps have been taken to hide it.
But Mr Zahawi said he is “confident I acted properly throughout” and that he looked forward to “explaining the facts of this issue” to the adviser, Sir Laurie Magnus.
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