British royalty is the most transparent

Although the British antimonárquicos still loading against Queen Elizabeth II and the squandering of its pageantry, no one can blame the Windsor House the lack of transparency when it comes to accountability to the taxpayer on your income and expenses.

From the total of 38.5 million euros received in the period 2010-2011 to the smallest detail in the dispensary - whether the 480,000 euros in alcoholic beverages or the light bills, cleaning and own hairdresser of the Queen - appear disaggregated official website.

The second oldest on the planet monarch is obliged to do so, since seven years Buckingham Palace is considered fiscally as a company.

A claim
but the United Kingdom society, hit by the crisis and the drastic cut of social benefits, claims a greater effort to its Royal family. In other words, that tighten the belt as any of their subjects.

If u000aElizabeth II pays taxes since 1993, coinciding with one of the peaks lower than his reign because Dianagate, costs generated from now will be subject to such scrutiny by the national audit as the one applied to other areas of the public budget. The Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne, also last fall announced a progressive reduction of its budget, which will reach 9% in 2015. Two years ago, the monarchy cost each British 62 pence annually.

The figure has now dropped to 51 pence.

Lady of far-sighted and with a reputation for stingy (it is said that it will turning off lights when it travels through the corridors of the Palace), the monarch has been implemented in recent years their own measures of austerity.

The annual allocation of nearly EUR 9 million it receives to defray the staff to its service and other living expenses (Civil List) hardly has been altered in two decades.

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