Nevrkla spoke out at his organisation's AGM at Kings Place in London on Wednesday on the issue as he compared how little in tax internet giants Apple, Amazon, Google, eBay and Facebook paid to the low earnings of most UK musicians.

He noted 90% of musicians in the UK, comprising tens of thousands of people, earned £16,000 or less from music. But he said the situation was worse than that as he recalled Musicians' Union general secretary John Smith last ...