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Shiftheads - The King Paid Tax. The Public Paid for Everything Else
Columnist and commentator Rob Breakenridge joins for two stories: what King Charles's voluntary tax disclosure actually reveals about royal finances, and what's happening to the Corb Lund coal petition in Alberta.
King Charles paid eleven million pounds in income tax last year, voluntarily, continuing a practice the Queen began in 1993. Rob unpacks why the numbers raise more questions than they settle: the palace renovation funded by taxpayers, the land the royal family profits from, and the 177 helicopter trips logged in a single year. Then the conversation turns to Alberta, where a…
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