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Actually, I think the links you provide back my points up pretty well. In fact, the Wikipedia articles you linked mentions that the Sovereign Grant is "15% to 25%" of the profits of the Royal Estate, not 25% to 35% as I thought. That's means the Government keeps 75% to 85% of their income, which is the "effective tax rate of at least 60%" I was talking about.
Aristocrats gonna aristocrat. There isn't a stately home in the country that doesn't generate income from just existing. The National Trust owns a lot of them and is a charity that is broadly laudable, but most of the rest don't burden themselves with the notion of being "non-profit".
And as you mentioned, the rest of their income is taxed as if they were normal humans rather than aristocrats. It may be on a "voluntary" and incredibly malleable basis, but that's probably because they know they'd get crucified if they didn't and, regardless, the income from non-Crown Estate concerns is basically negligible.
Look, I'm not saying this because I am assigning some moral or ethical judgement to paying taxes but calling the set up of the Royal Estate as tax is...flawed.
That is like saying an individual who withdraws a salary from their corporation is taxed at the rate equivalent to what they didn't withdraw.
Further,
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I guess the revenues don't fully cover the cost of the government? Seems like a good deal for the monarchy vs a tax?