What do the simple folk do? Pay taxes. And if Liberal Democrat M.P. Simon Hughes has his way, Queen Elizabeth II will soon pony up her share. Hughes introduced a bill in the House of Commons last week requiring the Queen to pay taxes on the $35 million she receives each year in private income from stock investments and land. The annual $12.7 million she gets from the government for expenses would remain tax free.
It is unlikely the bill will become law. But Hughes' gesture is consistent with a growing public disapproval of the half-century-old perk that exempts the Queen...
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