London Couple Refuses to Pay Olympic Tax
A London couple will land in court on Sept. 15 after refusing to pay tax of less than $50 unless all British citizens ante up.
"It isn't the money - we can pay - but I finally thought that it is time to stick my short little legs down and say 'up with this I will not put',” Rita Glenister told BBC.
"If everyone in England pays it then I will, but the fact that it is just Londoners paying it seems very unfair. I'm not going to run round the track, I'm not going to benefit from this 'legacy'.
"I'm not a killjoy. I think the Games are great, but I don't see why we should pay for it."
She and her husband Thomas paid all $3,300 of their council tax except what they call the Olympic surcharge.
She also said she’d go to jail before paying the tax.
Briefs…
Cubans watch baseball game between Cuba and South Korea in a cafeteria in Havana on Aug. 23, 2008. (Getty Images)More than two out of three people worldwide tuned in to the Beijing Olympics. Nielsen Media Research says that 4.7 billion people watched some of the 17 days of Olympic television coverage. This is one-fifth larger than the 3.9 billion who watched the Games in Athens. In the U.S., the 2008 Olympics, aired on NBC and its sister networks, became the most-watched American television event.
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Movie star Jackie Chan was not upset with his limited role in the Beijing Games, according to Thai media. "I don’t question my role. When the Beijing Organizing Committee beckons, I’m there," Chan told Contactmusic.
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