David Cameron on Sunday become the first UK prime minister to make public his tax returns and ordered a new taskforce to probe the Panama Papers in a bid to douse the growing anger over his investment in his late father’s offshore business.
Thousands of protesters carrying placards reading “Tories Out” and “Cameron Must Go” marched to Downing Street yesterday demanding Cameron’s resignation over the Panama Papers scandal.
Under pressure, Downing Street published a document detailing Cameron’s income and tax payments from 2009-10 to 2014-15.
Cameron, who became the first British leader to document his financial affairs due to the unprecedented move, paid almost 76,000 pounds in tax on an income of more than 200,000 pounds in 2014-15, according to figures released by the prime minister’s office.
Cameron, 49, earned 46,899 pounds from his 50 per cent share of rent on the London family home in Notting Hill, the three-page summary of the PM’s earnings since 2009 showed.
The move came after Cameron admitted in an emotional speech to the Conservative party s spring conference on Saturday that he “should have handled this better” and “will learn the lessons” from the row.