Brussels foreign affairs chief Baroness Ashton 'saving £40,000 in EU tax deal'

Daily Mail
"Baroness Ashton – the EU’s foreign affairs chief – is paying reduced taxes on her £230,000 salary, it emerged last night.Lady Ashton, who is the world’s highest- paid female politician, is saving up to £40,000 a year through a special deal for civil servants in Brussels.She is paying at staggered rates of 8 per cent to 45 per cent, having opted out of the British tax regime.The same deal is not available to members of the European Parliament."