Akshata Murty, the wife of UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, owns 3.89 crore shares in India’s second-largest IT company Infosys. She stands to earn Rs 68.17 crore in dividend income from her shares. Infosys declared a final dividend of Rs 17.50 per share for the financial year 2022-23, and an interim dividend of Rs 16.50 per share in October 2021. Together with the previous year’s dividend of Rs 31 per share, she would get a total of Rs 132.4 crore. Infosys is one of the best dividend-paying companies in India.
Akshata Murty is the daughter of Infosys co-founder Narayana Murthy and an Indian citizen. Her non-domiciled status, which allows her to earn money abroad without paying taxes in Britain for up to 15 years, has been a divisive issue in the UK. Akshata has stated that she pays UK tax on all her UK income and announced that she would pay UK tax on all her worldwide earnings out of a “British sense of fairness.”
Akshata studied economics and French at Claremont McKenna College in California and did a fashion designing diploma from the Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising in Los Angeles. She pursued her MBA at Stanford where she met Rishi Sunak, whom she married in 2009. The couple owns a vast real estate portfolio, including a townhouse in Kensington worth £7 million, a flat in Kensington, a mansion in Rishi’s Yorkshire constituency, and a penthouse in California.
According to Infosys filings, the promoters hold 13.11% of the company, of which the Murthy family owns 3.6%. Other prominent promoters include co-founder S Gopalakrishnan, Nandan M Nilekani, and S D Shibulal and their families.
