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Will they show

posted 8 years ago by Deenglow
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Will they show the queen becoming the first British monarch to negotiate with her PM (Churchill) to avoid paying income tax? In real life the queen became the first to do so, and only began paying a voluntary amount in 1992 after forty years of tax avoidance that would make Starbucks jealous.

[–] USTVFan 8 years ago

George IV did not pay Taxes.

[–] prtwhitley 8 years ago

No previous British monarch paid income taxes. Contributing a sum equal to tax voluntarily is a novel thing that HRH Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Phillip do.

The entirity of the UK traditionally belongs to the monarch.