[DemolitionRed]

I'm all for them paying for this Portuguese book being published but I'm now in a position of believing this is one huge cover-up. We have to accept though, not everyone believes this; in fact there are still a large chunk of British society on the McCanns side and clearly, people are still handing over large chunks of money in the search for Maddie. If I was on the McCanns side I would want that book shut down. On its release there's going to be a huge amount of damage done to both the McCanns and their company. God forbid if we are all wrong and Maddie is growing up somewhere on the globe... unlikely but not impossible.

The company is VAT registered, so although it wouldn’t be the done thing to take a salary, it would be perfectly acceptable to pay expenses. If no expenses are taken then the tax bracket would be much higher. People who give to a cause are normally content in the knowledge that a portion of their donation will be used for necessary expenses and as much as we may disagree, this sort of fund (in this case) provides ability to assist the family financially if necessary and so some of those expenses could include the occasional mortgage payments. What donators are never happy about is paying large chunks tax on what they have gifted.