Angela Rayner faces new questions over tax on homes
Angela Rayner is facing new questions about her financial affairs after it emerged capital gains tax may be owed on another property. Labour’s deputy leader insists that a house she sold for a large profit in 2015 was her main residence, which, if true, means her husband, Mark Rayner, should have paid capital gains tax on a property he sold the following year. Tax experts said the couple would have had “two bites of the cherry” if neither paid CGT when the properties were sold. Police are investigating multiple allegations against Ms Rayner, with at least a dozen officers assigned to the case. The Conservatives said Ms Rayner’s version of events “makes absolutely no sense” and her failure to pay tax could no longer be written off as “some kind of innocent error”. Ms Rayner is facing scrutiny over whether she or her husband paid the right amount of capital gains tax when two properties they owned simultaneously during their marriage were sold; whether she broke electoral law by registering the wrong address as her permanent address; and whether single person’s discount on council tax was wrongly claimed at one of the properties. Stephen Watson, the Chief Constable of Greater...