The figure is well above what any official UK estimate said it would be
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The UK agreed to pay a financial settlement to the EU as a precondition for entering into wider talks on a post-Brexit deal.but only now has the EU calculated how much it thinks it is owed – and a big chunk needs to be paid this year. Both parties agreed on the methodology for calculating the sum during Brexit negotiations but did not set a firm number.There have been several official estimates of the amount the UK will pay to the EU both before and after Boris Johnson took power – but Brussels figure is higher than them all At £40.8 billion, the EU’s figure outstrips any official UK calculation, with the total ‘estimated to be paid by the UK in 2021’ alone recorded as £5.8 billion.
The divorce bill would have been higher but is offset by £1.8 billion owed to the UK by the EU, including a percentage of fines imposed by the bloc pre-2020 and a share of the liquidated assets of the European Coal and Steel Community.they consider the sum to be ‘an accounting estimate rather than accurately reflecting the true figure of what would be paid’.
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