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Baker claims King's slimmed-down monarchy now costs more

Baker says five royals have gone, yet "the costs have actually gone up"

ROYALS: Baker claims King's slimmed-down monarchy now costs more. Baker says five royals have gone, yet "the costs have actually gone up"
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Fabergé eggs, a £100million stamp collection and half a billion pounds of jewellery. Former Lib Dem MP Norman Baker says the Royal Family pays no inheritance tax on any of it, and calls that "an insult".

"Why should one family, a very rich family, be exempt from the same tax everybody else pays?" he asks.

UCL's Professor Robert Hazell argues working royals raise millions for charity and boost tourism.

Should the royals pay inheritance tax like the rest of us?

Full story: Mirror – News

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