Thoughts on the King and Prince of Wales tax disclosures

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According to the BBC KC and PW have released details of the tax they paid in the 2024-2025 Tax Year.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c8x2151y8q4o

Apparently KC is in the Top 100 tax payers - The Sunday Times Rich List for 2025 placed him at 238.

I think it’s good they have done this and believe they are entitled to use the same legal tax avoidance measures everyone else can use. I don’t think we have a right to know every detail of their personal wealth but this is balanced against transparency regarding the Sovereign Grant and Duchies.

Just no.
The Windsors favour themselves and no one else . If they rfavoured those without a voice they’d happily pay all legally due tax as a first step . You are deluding yourself .
What voice have they given Epstein victims ? They blackened their names and cover up after Andrew

The Duchys are not ‘trusts’ . People who repeat that …misapprehension.. are trying to create the impression that William and Charles are subject to the law as the rest of us are.
They aren’t .
The Duchies do not belong to them . Just as the Crown estate does not belong to them . A lot of effort goes into to propagating the idea that they do.

No monarchy - no Duchys.

Charles pays some tax and has historically been more inclined to be a degree more transparent than he needs to be , yes . His PR is clearly trying to shame William into doing the same ( William closed the books as soon as he got his greedy mitts on the money)

BUT they are not subject to tax law . They decide what bits of tax they’ll throw our way. William is not subject to income tax ( why the hell not , he’s not king?) what he offered is secret and voluntary and we have to take their word for it .

The Duchys are capitalist corporations - as the farmers thrown off their land to allow development will no doubt agree. But they do not pay their due corporation tax or other taxes due when running a for profit business .
Why not ? Because they don’t want to and they are literally above the law so they spin the old ‘private when it suits them , public when it suits them’ line and the hard of thinking swallow it .

Long term it’s over for them . They have finally heard the tumbril hence the sudden ‘revelations’

Too little too late .

I hope the current parliamentary investigations do result in the Windsors being subject to the law - yes including all tax law - if not it will not go well for them long term.

The sort of people who happily accept the Windsor boot on their neck are dying off .

Where are your sources?
where is your evidence?
these are purely your opinions stated in a way that implies fact.

Are you the same poster who on another thread wouldn’t reply to my posts except by saying never to tag you again?

Are you the same poster who insults and drips venom at anyone who questions your statements?
if so apologies! , I will give you a swerve in future!

For anyone genuinely interested in the facts read
‘ And what do you do’?
and
‘ Royal Mint national Debt ‘

Both by Norman Baker or google the author for a summary .

you’ll see more than I would ever have time to list

Oh and I see William has finally been shamed into stopping pocketing 1 and a half million a year in rent from the tax payer for an empty prison
Spreading awareness does work.

@Ukisgaslit So fun to hear £12M and £7M in taxes described as “some tax” and “what bit”.

I shall take up these terms when it comes to eating and drinking; please can I have some wine and a bit of cheese? (That’s a magnum and a wheel of Brie.)

Those two books are total eye openers and should be obligatory reading for anyone who depends the whole institution to the hilt

So fun to hear £12M and £7M in taxes described as “some tax” and “what bit”.

What do you make of the £5m discrepancy in declared taxes on two bodies with similar commercial interests making similar profits?

Well Cathy, I actually haven’t looked at their financials so I couldn’t say.

But I do know that we need to do something about Amazon having paid less in taxes than 100 individuals in the UK paid? What do you make of that? Have you any concerns about it?

No thanks. And I’m not listening to his hokey music either. He should think about getting a job.

This thread is about the Windsors.

If you have concerns about Amazon maybe you should start a new thread elsewhere than the royal board about it.

Yes and the King paid more in taxes than a massive corporation taking revenue from endless numbers of small businesses. Employment from more individuals than we could number. Absolutely devastating small towns and cities across the planet.

I think that’s a tragedy no matter how much you may dislike him.

@NotTalkinBoutTheLinen

You seem confused . I said ‘some’ tax because William and Charles do not pay all the tax due . Some is not all . It’s not complicated .
They just don’t want to pay so they don’t and as they are above the law there is nothing we can do about it except continue to press for justice . It is working but slowly .

Amazon are irrelevant to the thread but since you mentioned it Amazon pays more 60 times more tax than the Windsors . Amazon is also not taking millions in state funding .

They do pay all the tax but they don’t want to so they don’t?

But I’m confused?

You’ve clearly edited after I posted.

Extensively. Perhaps get your own ducks together before describing others as confused.

It is confusing.

For instance, the King has two tax-free ways in which he can fund official duties.

Here is a good summary:

Three unusual things about the King's tax bill - BBC News

And Amazon’s 5 largest UK subsidiaries had £32BN in revenues, received £Ms in tax credits and paid almost fuck all comparatively.

Taxes have a purpose. We can’t talk about the collection of taxes while ignoring that purpose nor discuss one person’s taxes as if they are in a vacuum. Taxes aren’t just some abstract thing we owe the government individually. They should be fairly shared across all.

Don't tell me “The Windsors” are using more resources than Amazon so should be bearing more of the burden. That’s nonsense. Amazon is sucking UK dry infinitely more than the Royal Family. They cause endless harm, and should at minimum be taxed to offset their damage.

You seem confused . I said ‘some’ tax because William and Charles do not pay all the tax due . Some is not all . It’s not complicated .

You need to clarify your argument.

You cannot argue both that

• the King is above the law and pays no tax

and

• the King does not pay all the tax due

It makes you look confused.
If the King is above the law, he is not due to pay tax, so no tax is due. The tax he pays is paid voluntarily.

You will, if you are aware of the facts, know that the Prince of Wales is not legally subject to tax on the income from the Duchy of Cornwall, but is subject to tax on all other private income.
He voluntarily pays tax on the income from the Duchy of Cornwall, as his father did before him, and as he has agreed with the government (I have previously linked to the Memorandum outlining this).

I was reading an MP question asking for the legal basis for the fact that William and Charles are not subject to tax law .

The answer was it was based on a ‘memorandum of understanding’ ie there is no legal basis for the fact that William
and Charles stiff the taxpayer and get away with it .

Victoria paid taxes and estate taxes .

Several issues re the Windsors seem to be based on a ‘memorandum’ . Interesting .

There was a paragraph stating that the memorandum can be revoked at any time . There is hope yet .
I don’t see any party getting many objections from voters for making the Windsors pay all their taxes and be subject to the law .
The country is failing and has been for years
True ‘duty’ would result in the Windsors offering to pay all taxes but what else can we expect from the Andrew protectors ?

The little they are doing now is purely as a result of public pressure and public awareness .

Were it not for those 2 factors they’d be paying even less and still covering up for Andrew .

No idea what 'hokey music' is and I presume you know he was an MP for 19 years, was also a Minister and served on the Privy Council

I’ll be you also know that was quite a long time ago.

It must be absolutely mind blowing to know that there are people out there who have read these and various other republican polemics and still aren’t crying for the royals to be in a tumbril…🤣

Indeed! @Serenster! , I have read them and was not impressed with the quality of “evidence “ nor the very obvious bias that clouded the entire narrative!
every author searches for and finds the very evidence that they want to find to further their story.

It's a step in the right direction, but it's hard not to infer that they think the public are still defrential and can be easily fobbed off.