[GaryCrow]

The Beatles went on to establish a corporation, Apple Corps, in order to lower their taxes. Corporate tax rates were lower than individual tax rates so they incorporated to get the lower rates.

For all their admiration of communist ideals, the Beatles didn't like having their money confiscated any more than the rest of us.

[nascarnation]

Sounds like when hard left Senator Howard Metzenbaum of Ohio moved to Florida before he croaked to avoid state death tax.