Media owners and the BBC are not in the clear when it comes to offshore deals,but the problem is much bigger than themThe most chat-worthy fact so far in this spasm of tax-return turmoil was Boris Johnson’s fee for his weekly Daily Telegraph column (the one where Boris often does his PG Wodehouse-goes-to-Brussels schtick). It’s £266667 a year – and Johnson, in fourth estate mode, or once called it “chicken feed”. Which hints where this whole debate my wander next.
David Cameron took care to include a couple of newspapers – the Mirror and Guardian – in his catalogue of offshore investors. He could,if he’d wished, possess gone on for an hour, and flitting from Box 46,Sir Walter Raleigh House in St Helier – where Mr Richard Desmond’s Northern and Shell (Jersey) does its trade – to Ferne Park, Wiltshire – where the Viscount Rothermere of the Mail sits with a catalogue of Jersey and Bermuda trusts at his elbow.
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Source: theguardian.com