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King Charles’s tax bill: what did we learn, and what is still in the dark?
The Guardian World
Thursday 25 June 2026, 21:00 UTC
By Rob Evans and Juliette Garside
1 min read
Key Points
We know the monarch paid £24.6m in tax over the last two years, but we still don’t know how wealthy he actually isCrown estate makes more than £1bn profit for third year runningKing Charles has become Britain’s first monarch in modern times to reveal how much tax he pays on his private income: £24.6m over the last two years. It’s a move celebrated by some as heralding an era of greater transparency from the monarchy. But just how open has it been?
We know the monarch paid £24.6m in tax over the last two years, but we still don’t know how wealthy he actually is
King Charles has become Britain’s first monarch in modern times to reveal how much tax he pays on his private income: £24.6m over the last two years.
It’s a move celebrated by some as heralding an era of greater transparency from the monarchy. But just how open has it been?
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