Mr Javid told the Times he was “non-dom” between 2000 and 2006 when he worked for Deutsche Bank. Sajid Javid told the newspaper he had qualified for the program, which allows one not to pay tax in the UK on one’s earnings abroad because one’s father was born in Pakistan. The revelation comes after the Independent revealed that Chancellor Risi Sunak’s wife was evading taxes because of her non-home status. The health minister added that he had also benefited from an offshore confidence during his tenure in the financial sector. Mr Javid said: “I have been living in the United Kingdom for tax purposes all my life. Given the growing public interest in these issues, I want to be open about my previous tax statements. My pre-political career was in international finance. “For almost two decades I was constantly traveling around the world for work.” Sajid Javid, Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak during a hospital visit on April 6 (REUTERS) He said he returned to the United Kingdom after a posting in New York and “for some of those years, I did not have my home for tax purposes, but I paid all my UK income taxes and I always did.” Referring to the offshore trust, he said: “Before I returned to the UK and entered public life, some of my financial investments were based on an offshore trust. Although this was a perfectly legal arrangement, when I became a minister in 2012, I decided to voluntarily break this trust, repatriate all assets to the UK and pay 50 per cent income tax on those assets. “This approach deliberately imposed the greatest possible tax burden and offset any accrued benefits from the previous trust agreement, but I thought it was the right thing to do.”
