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by darkr 1383 days ago
The sovereign grant currently running around £90M/year: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sovereign_Grant_Act_2011
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wheelinsupial 1383 days ago
By no means am I an expert on this, but it looks like the sovereign grant is a tax refund paid to the crown from the taxes that the Crown Estate pays.

https://www.bbc.com/news/explainers-57559653.amp

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MagnumOpus 1383 days ago
The sovereign grant is paid to the Windsor family, not the Crown.

It is important to distinguish the "Crown" (essentially the monarchy-as-government) and the queens' family and hangers-on...

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nly 1383 days ago
It's peanuts though? I mean that's about 1000 well paid London software engineers paying their typical income tax.
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