Captain Philip Astley, husband of Madeleine Carroll, the film star, is faced with a demand for more than £10,000 tax on her income/in Hollywood.
He says it is "absurd," and that if he paid, it would leave his wife with less.than 4s. out of each pound she earns, He has been told /by counsel that he has a good case, aba does not intend to pay.
Miss Carroll, he told the "Sunday Express," worked solely in Hollywood in 1936 and 1937, spent nineteen days in Britain, and paid 60 per cent. of her income in United States taxation.
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