Neidle, who has investigated the tax affairs of several politicians, looked into Polanski’s situation and wrote on his Tax Policy Associates website this week: “If, as seems likely, that was his main residence, then Mr Polanski and his partner should have paid council tax there.”<\/p>\n
The Times newspaper last week questioned whether Polanski had paid council tax for the boat for the past three years.<\/p>\n
It reported that it had seen an advertisement to sell the boat in which Polanski’s partner had said: “We are moving house and so will sadly be leaving the gorgeous community behind.”<\/p>\n
The paper said that the Green Party had told it Polanski lived in a room that he rented at a different address in London and council tax was included in his rent there. The party told the paper that he only stayed on the boat “occasionally”.<\/p>\n
However the Times reported that the Green Party leader and his partner “appear in recent years to have stayed on a narrowboat at a marina”, adding a local laundrette said it had often done laundry for Polanski and his partner from 2023 to 2025.<\/p>\n
Polanski, along with several other individuals also thought to have boats in the marina, used a nearby building as a postal address. The Mail also reported that he had been registered to vote there.<\/p>\n
When the BBC asked the Green Party for clarification about Polanski’s residence and whether he had paid the relevant council tax, a party spokesperson gave us a statement saying: “Until relatively recently, Zack was living on a houseboat, which came with its own unique practical circumstances and considerations.”<\/p>\n
It continued: “He has immediately taken steps to pay any council tax he may be found to owe. For security reasons, we do not comment publicly on Zack’s address.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Neidle, who has investigated the tax affairs of several politicians, looked into Polanski’s situation and wrote on his…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":579213,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-579212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=579212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579212\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/579213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=579212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=579212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=579212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}