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King Charles urged to help end £152 billion annual tax avoidance

A group of researchers and activists has written to King Charles asking that he join its campaign to end tax avoidance it estimates to cost £152 billion each year, the Guardian reports.

King Charles urged to help end £152 billion annual tax avoidance
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"Tax Justice Network, a coalition of researchers and activists campaigning against tax avoidance, are today calling on King Charles to use his reign as monarch to call for a revamp of laws that allow industrial scale tax avoidance in the UK, the crown dependencies and the British overseas territories," the Guardian reports. 

"The campaigners will tell King Charles in a letter today, seen by the Guardian, that they hope his coronation will 'mark a pivotal moment to address the heavy financial and human cost borne by ordinary people … due to the UK and its network of tax havens over which your majesty is sovereign'."

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