The new leader of the Green Party has called on Nigel Farage to resign over his tax affairs.
In an interview with The i Paper, Zack Polanski said it was right for Angela Rayner to resign as Deputy Prime Minister for not paying enough stamp duty on her flat, but that, in his opinion, what emerged this week about the Reform UK leader’s tax arrangements is worse.
It was revealed yesterday that Farage set up a private company into which his earnings from media appearances, such as GB News, are paid – enabling him to pay corporation tax at 25 per cent, rather than the 40 per cent on income tax he would otherwise pay.
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Referring to Rayner quitting, Polanski said, “If this is supposedly a resignation issue, I’m looking forward to seeing Nigel Farage’s letters [of resignation] in the next few hours.”
Asked to clarify if he is calling for Farage to resign, Polanski said, “He obviously should. He’s been calling for Rayner to resign, so this is just rank hypocrisy.”
On Wednesday, Farage said about Rayner: “If a case like that was me, you’d all be demanding that I resign. I don’t quite see how she survives.”
Earlier today, Farage addressed the audience at the Reform UK conference, telling delegates, “You simply can’t get away from being the Housing Secretary and avoiding £40,000 of council tax.” It was a shortfall in stamp duty, not council tax, that Rayner neglected to pay on her £800,000 home in Hove, East Sussex.
Farage added, “It screams entitlement. It screams to a government that, despite all the promises that it would be a new, different kind of politics, is as bad if not worse than the one that went before.”
When challenged by this paper that Farage’s tax arrangements are entirely legal, Polanski said: “I think lots of things are in the rules. But if you’re Nigel Farage and you’re a man who claims to speak for working people, if you’re someone who supports ‘fire-and-rehire’ and zero-hours contracts with no guaranteed pay, then I think the public who have just voted for Reform should probably know what the leader of the Reform Party actually stands for.”
Polanski said of Rayner, “The fact she has resigned demonstrates to me that she probably had something to resign for. Otherwise, she wouldn’t have resigned.” But he added, “I do feel compassion for the first part of the story. I heard that she had a disabled son, so things got complicated. I think that speaks to what a mess our taxation system is and what a mess the rules are.”
Rayner found herself caught between trust law, conveyancing law and tax law over the flat, which should have been considered a second home, even after her divorce two years ago.
“If the Secretary of State for Housing supposedly doesn’t understand her own rules, it suggests there needs to be clarity of the rules,” said Polanski. “If she has lied and the rules were very clear and Keir Starmer knew that, I’m actually not interested in what Angela Rayner has done today, I’m interested in what the Prime Minister is going to do next, because that would be outrageous.”
In her resignation letter, Rayner said, “I deeply regret my decision to not seek additional specialist tax advice given both my position as housing secretary and my complex family arrangements.”
Farage’s spokesperson told the Guardian in response to its report on his tax affairs: “Thorn in the Side Ltd has traded for 15 years and has a variety of interests. It renders the services of several contractors and is a properly functioning company.”
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