<p>UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak on Wednesday published his personal tax returns over three financial years to 2022, after repeated calls for transparency about his finances.</p>.<p>The returns show that the privately wealthy former investment banker paid a total of £1,053,060 ($1,288,787) in tax, including £432,493 last year.</p>.<p>Taking income and capital gains into account, he earned £4.7 million in total in the period. Of that, £1.9 million came last year.</p>.<p>Sunak has been under pressure to publish his tax returns, particularly since it emerged that his wife, Akshata Murty, enjoyed "non-dom" status when he was finance minister.</p>.<p><strong>Also Read | <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/international/world-news-politics/sunak-thinks-timing-uk-tax-cuts-just-right-can-save-the-tories-1201349.html" target="_blank">Sunak thinks timing UK tax cuts just right can save the Tories</a></strong></p>.<p>That meant she did not pay UK tax on dividends from her stake in her billionaire Indian father's Infosys software company. After a row, she pledged to pay the amount due on her worldwide income.</p>.<p>The main opposition Labour party has sought to use the family's wealth as evidence that the prime minister is out of touch with ordinary people, particularly during a cost-of-living crisis.</p>.<p>The Guardian earlier this month reported that he had a heated private swimming pool at his constituency home in northern England, at a time many voters were struggling with high energy prices.</p>.<p>The Sunday Times Rich List estimates that the couple has a net worth of £730 million -- more than head of state King Charles III.</p>.<p>Sunak, 42, is the son of immigrants from India and east Africa, who went to a top private school and the University of Oxford.</p>.<p>He worked at investment management company Goldman Sachs and two hedge funds before entering politics.</p>.<p>As a minister, he has placed his investments in a non-transparent "blind trust".</p>.<p>Labour questioned the timing of the release of the returns, which came as Sunak's former boss Boris Johnson was questioned about whether he lied to parliament about lockdown-breaking parties.</p>.<p>MPs also voted Wednesday on a key aspect of Sunak's deal with the European Union to unlock political paralysis in Northern Ireland.</p>
<p>UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak on Wednesday published his personal tax returns over three financial years to 2022, after repeated calls for transparency about his finances.</p>.<p>The returns show that the privately wealthy former investment banker paid a total of £1,053,060 ($1,288,787) in tax, including £432,493 last year.</p>.<p>Taking income and capital gains into account, he earned £4.7 million in total in the period. Of that, £1.9 million came last year.</p>.<p>Sunak has been under pressure to publish his tax returns, particularly since it emerged that his wife, Akshata Murty, enjoyed "non-dom" status when he was finance minister.</p>.<p><strong>Also Read | <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/international/world-news-politics/sunak-thinks-timing-uk-tax-cuts-just-right-can-save-the-tories-1201349.html" target="_blank">Sunak thinks timing UK tax cuts just right can save the Tories</a></strong></p>.<p>That meant she did not pay UK tax on dividends from her stake in her billionaire Indian father's Infosys software company. After a row, she pledged to pay the amount due on her worldwide income.</p>.<p>The main opposition Labour party has sought to use the family's wealth as evidence that the prime minister is out of touch with ordinary people, particularly during a cost-of-living crisis.</p>.<p>The Guardian earlier this month reported that he had a heated private swimming pool at his constituency home in northern England, at a time many voters were struggling with high energy prices.</p>.<p>The Sunday Times Rich List estimates that the couple has a net worth of £730 million -- more than head of state King Charles III.</p>.<p>Sunak, 42, is the son of immigrants from India and east Africa, who went to a top private school and the University of Oxford.</p>.<p>He worked at investment management company Goldman Sachs and two hedge funds before entering politics.</p>.<p>As a minister, he has placed his investments in a non-transparent "blind trust".</p>.<p>Labour questioned the timing of the release of the returns, which came as Sunak's former boss Boris Johnson was questioned about whether he lied to parliament about lockdown-breaking parties.</p>.<p>MPs also voted Wednesday on a key aspect of Sunak's deal with the European Union to unlock political paralysis in Northern Ireland.</p>