Yesterday Bono and his crew landed onto the Pyramid Stage to peform at the world famous 'Glastonbury' festival. But as well as bringing with them a selection of classic rock tunes and some sunglasses there was also a band of protestors attempting to let off a balloon saying that the Irish band should pay taxes in Ireland, rather than worldwide as they do, which naturally saves them money.
Now I'm fully sympathatic to the bands like U2 and Adele, who recently also complained about having to give over a lot of her revenue in tax, and I'd be equally annoyed if I had to give over 50% of what I earned over. However, they do make millions of pounds out of what they do so they can't really complain about being out of pocket - you make lots of money; you pay lots of tax. It shouldn't be up to the rich and / or big businesses to be able to be creative with the figures and move their money round, depriving countries of tax that could be put to good use, such as, you know, schools and hospitals.
Perhaps Bono should do a deal with the Irish government and, instead of saving the money by making tax dodges around the world, should donate that 50% to the Band Aid he's always talking about. That way the tax definitely goes to a good cause.
Saturday 25 June 2011
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