This is what a Millionaire is doing to ease his tax burden......
"Tony Blair has a commercial consultancy, called Tony Blair Associates, plus jobs advising a US bank and a Swiss insurer. He has a multimillion pound book deal. He also has a charity, the Tony Blair Africa Governance Initiative, and another called the Tony Blair Faith Foundation. But much of the income, which includes charitable donations from other sources, has been funnelled through a structure called Windrush Ventures No 3 Limited Partnership....
Blair has a complex web of structures involving 12 different legal entities handling the unprecedented millions he is receiving since he stepped down from office in 2007.
So mystifying are the former prime minister's financial structures – which involve highly specialised limited partnerships and parallel companies – that the Guardian today launches an open invitation to tax specialists and accountants to attempt to explain the motivation behind such structures. We have published the Companies House documents and other legal papers regarding the structure of the partnerships at guardian.co.uk and invite expert comment via our site at guardian.co.uk/politics/series/blair-mystery.
There is no suggestion Blair is doing anything illegal. But he refuses to explain the purpose of the secretive partnerships."
I ask myself a simple question about our ex PM's Tax scheme - Why? When everyone else is being fleeced rotten! The answer must be - because he can and he is a Champagne Socialist. Married to a Human Rights Lawyer dedicated to help the disadvantaged!
