The Edge has written a letter to the Baltimore Sun, taking issue with claims that the band are dodging tax.
Federal employee Simon Moroney wrote a letter to the Baltimore Sun protesting a local Democrat senator’s support of Bono’s ONE campaign and accusing the Irish superstars of abusing regulations in both Ireland and the US to minimise their tax.
Now The Edge has personally responded to the allegations in his own letter to the newspaper.
While The Edge says the article was riddled with inaccuracies, the most egregious was the “totally false and possibly libelous accusation that U2 and Bono have, by moving a part of their business activities to Holland, been involved in tax evasion.”
He writes that the band as an entity and each individual member “have a totally clean record with every jurisdiction to which they are required to pay tax and have never been and will never be involved in tax evasion”.
He claims that the band have paid millions to the IRS and “I hope that his fears of an Obama tax increase affecting him personally turn out to be as unfounded as his statements about U2's tax affairs and Bono's ONE campaign.”
The full letter can be found here.
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