reveal united made a profit of just over £6 million. research has found that premier league football clubs, players and their agents may have used a tax avoidance scheme to get out of paying hundreds of millions of pounds in tax in recent years. the report seen by the bbc suggests they have used a dual representation tax structure, where an agent says they are representing the player and the club buying the player to avoid playing millions in taxes since 2019. ben chu reports. is something rotten in the state of football when it comes to tax? research seen by bbc news might suggest premier league clubs might have avoided hundreds of millions of pounds of tax that ought to be paid when players are signed on move clubs. it hinges on something called dual representation and football transfers. this is where the agent is being paid by both the player,
front. allen weisselberg is expected to accept a plea agreement for his role in a tax avoidance scheme as soon as this thursday. tom winter joining us from new york. tom, what do investigators expect from weisselberg as part of the agreement? he knew more about knew about everything going on in the trump organization than almost anyone else. he was the cfo. i would say so. as much as the former president who obviously was the figurehead of the trump organization. when you look at this plea agreement, it sounds as if it s going to be narrowly focused on a couple of different areas. we will get to jail time first. we are hearing likely to spend five months behind bars as a result of this. he is expected to plead, as we have been reporting with my colleagues, expected to plead guilty on thursday morning in court in state court in manhattan. he is expected to provide
compel trump and his sons to testify. trump was arguing she shouldn t be able to because she s participating in a criminal investigation being issued by the manhattan district attorney. they ve charged trump s financial officer in an alleged tax avoidance scheme. he said it s not proper for the same office to probe criminal and civil probes and it s a way of side stepping. the judge asked why he couldn t just take the fifth and his lawyers said it could be used against him in another case. his son took the fifth more than 500 times. thank you. that wraps up a very busy hour
The Specialist anti-avoidance legislation has given HMRC significant powers to demand upfront payment of disputed tax from taxpayers using avoidance schemes.