Football
Tax & Regulation | 27 Apr 17
Chelsea is latest football club embroiled in HMRC tax probe
Chelsea is the latest Premier League football club to become involved in a £5m (€5.8m, $6.4m) HMRC investigation into tax fraud after Newcastle and West Ham were raided earlier this week.
Tax & Regulation | 26 Apr 17
Newcastle and West Ham raided in HMRC tax fraud probe
HM Revenue & Customs has raided football clubs Newcastle and West Ham and locations in France following investigations into tax fraud.
Tax & Regulation | 6 Apr 17
HMRC to visit top UK football clubs in tax-dodging probe
The UK tax office will visit all English Premier League, Championship and Scottish Premier League clubs in the next three years to review payments made to players amid a string of high-profile tax avoidance cases.
Messi appeal against Spanish tax fraud sentence set for April
Argentinian football star Lionel Messi will appear in court in Spain next month to appeal the 21-month prison sentence he was handed for tax evasion last year.
Arsenal’s Sanchez facing jail after admitting €1m tax fraud
Arsenal striker Alexis Sanchez faces a possible jail sentence after admitting to tax fraud in Spain of almost €1m (£880,240, $1.06m).