Cameron Faces More Questions About His Finances
U.K. prime minister received a cash gift oDavidf £200,000 from his mother
LONDON—U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron faced further questions about his financial affairs on Sunday, including a cash gift from his mother, despite taking the unprecedented step of publishing information about his income tax for the past six years following a week of scrutiny sparked by the Panama leaks.
Mr. Cameron over the weekend became the first British prime minister to release a summary of his tax returns, and his office said he had received a £200,000 gift from his mother. The prime minister had faced a week of pressure from opposition politicians and the British media to provide fuller disclosure over his tax affairs, in particular his family’s links to an offshore fund set up by his late father in the early 1980s that avoided paying U.K. income taxes.
Opposition politicians called for Mr. Cameron to go further and publish his full tax returns and to detail his tax affairs before 2010....
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