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Originally Posted by L-Pink
That's why the Stones and most British entertainment stars became tax exiles.
"During the early 1970s The Rolling Stones became tax exiles. Their experience inspired the title to their famous album Exile on Main St. According to a 2006 article in the Daily Mail, "The Rolling Stones have paid just 1.6 per cent tax on their earnings of £242 million over the past 20 years."
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They were also getting took from their business men for the remaining 10% and were flat broke. Jagger was a pretty smart guy, London School of Economics educated and made a lot more changes to their business as the greatest rock & roll band in the world than just becoming exiles.
Or they could have just not worked as much doing what they love to do, which was my point. "If you love what you do..." is the expression.