Comment on Andrew Mountbatten Windsor's Daughters Are Still Receiving Rent-Free Royal Accommodation
Flax_vert@feddit.uk 1 week agoThe King owns land called the crown estate. He surrenders the profit to the treasury who then pays him back a small fraction of, which he also pays tax on.
The King does not get funded by tax money, just a small portion of what his family’s land makes.
Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Well he shouldn’t.
Flax_vert@feddit.uk 1 week ago
Such a proposition is unrealistic. It’s his family’s land, he’s the heir. At least he surrenders it to the government, unlike most land-owners.
Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 1 week ago
His family has avoided inheritance tax for centuries. It’s totally realistic. Look at all the Republican countries.
Flax_vert@feddit.uk 1 week ago
Ah yes, the republican countries with great heads of states like Russia, Turkiye, The USA, etc
zedcell@lemmygrad.ml 1 week ago
Communist and anti-colonialist land reforms show that such a proposition is not unrealistic at all you are just a bootlicker monarchist.
Flax_vert@feddit.uk 1 week ago
It is unrealistic. Communism has never worked.