The Edge: U2 Tax Evasion Claims Are 'Possibly Libellous'

U2 guitarist The Edge has reacted angrily to claims that the band are tax evaders.

The musician was responding to a letter published in the Baltimore Sun newspaper by local federal worker Simon Moroney.

In his letter, Moroney took aim at the whole band, but specifically Bono, who he said "exemplifies the worst characteristics of Wall Street, both for excess and tax evasion”.

The Edge said Moroney's letter, which was in response to Marylan Sentator Benjamin Cardin's support of Bono's anti-poverty campaign, ONE, contained “so many inaccuracies that it is pointless to attempt to correct them all”.

He continued: “But the most serious inaccuracy is the totally false and possibly libelous accusation that U2 and Bono have, by moving a part of their business activities to Holland, been involved in tax evasion.

“For the record U2 and the individual band members have a totally clean record with every jurisdiction to which they are required to pay tax and have never been and will never be involved in tax evasion.”

U2 are currently in the middle of the second US leg of their 360 Degree world tour.