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To: The Chancellor of the Exchequer
taxing newspaper bosses
Change the tax laws to ensure the owners of our newspapers pay the same taxes as their readers by ensuring that:
Individuals who own a controlling interest in a UK newspaper must be treated as resident in Britain for tax purposes
Why is this important?
National newspapers in the UK set the tone and agenda of the political debate and can influence policies which result in cost to the public purse or cuts to public services.
Yet much of the national press is owned by people who avoid the consequences of such policies, either because they are foreign nationals or, by using “non-Dom” status and/or offshore “financial instruments’, to avoid paying the taxes which would give them a stake in the policies their newspapers advocate.
In other words they influence policy but do not pay for the consequences - an example of representation without taxation which undermines the concept of public service and accountability."
