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Buttle? Tuttle?
June 26, 2007 ( politics )
Somewhere in London, a Rob Buttle is about to get a £1,484,765 bill for unpaid congestion charges (the BBC bia BoingBoing:
"The majority of missions pay the congestion charge on time and do not incur fines. We also wrote to all missions owing over £1,000 in fines urging them to settle their debts with Transport for London."The US embassy - along with many others - has refused to pay the congestion fee on the grounds that it is tax; and therefore diplomats are exempt from paying it.
It has led to stinging criticism from London mayor Ken Livingstone, who branded US ambassador Robert Tuttle a "venal little crook" for his refusal to pay.
It saddens me that neither BoingBoing nor the Freakonomics blog took the Brazil joke.
Posted by griffjon at June 26, 2007 08:31 AM
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