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Originally Posted by Zippy

Correction; U2 the whole group and their manager donated 6 million DOLLARS (£3.3 mill at the time) from the profits of their Vertigo tour which included a Live8 concert.

These are the kind of charity donations that are done like a business deal; theyre buying good publicity and getting tax breaks for their donations too.

Either way, not quite the "£6mill of his own money" you suggest. His share was apparently more like £665k reading reports.

OK, I'll take it you didn't read the earlier post, because you said you didn't, so I'll paraphrase. Mind you, it baffles me why anyone would want to debate with two fingers in their ears.
Bono and U2 almost never disclose what they give to charity; they're damned if they do and damned if they don't (disclose that is), as your above contribution so acutely demonstrates.
However, the President of Amnesty International, when pushed by journalists, admitted to 'sizeable' donations from the band. How sizeable? We don't know. Because U2 don't want us to know. It's almost as if the only way he can win is to stay away from the issue entirely. That's really, really sad.
I've accepted that the tax avoidance is not commendable. Why can you not separate the two issues? Or address the fact that the vast majority people, relatively speaking, try to avoid paying more tax? In the Irish case, most of our tax take is going to pay senior bank bond holders. I'd prefer Bono concentrated his mind on world debt, to be honest.