Frederick Forsyth's year in Dénia was because of a tax problem, the author says

Frederick Forsyth's year in Dénia was because of a tax problem, the author says: "Frederick Forsyth, the British author who launched his career as a thriller writer with the best-selling ‘The Day of the Jackal’, was in Madrid recently to promote his latest book, ‘The Cobra’.

Forsyth once lived in Dénia and, speaking to journalists at the presentation, he admitted that he moved out to the Costa Blanca because of a ‘problem’ with taxes. The author was told that the UK’s Labour government of 1974 would take 85% of the money he had had earned from his first three books, unless he moved abroad for a year.

Forsyth chose Spain for his year away from the UK. As he told a reporter from the newspaper Levante-emv, ‘I’d just married. My wife and I looked for a quiet spot and someone recommended Dénia, which was cheaper than Marbella. We bought an old house, with a hectare of land with oranges, and we spent our time restoring it. After the year had passed we returned to the UK and, after a while, we sold it.’"

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