Gold Medals in tax avoidance

To help the UK get the bid to host the Games, London’s Olympic organisers passed tax-avoidance legislation. And corporations and big-name athletes lobbied hard to make sure winnings and profits wouldn’t be taxed.

Read more and sign the petition organised by the online campaign group 38 Degrees.

 Click the link to their site: http://www.38degrees.org.uk/

Also read the Independent’s Simon Birch on Olympic Tax avoidance

http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/07/17/the-great-olympic-tax-swindle/