This year’s Budget had attached to it a tax exemption from foreign-baxed footballers players in next year’s Champions League final at Wembley. Normally they would be required to fill in a tax form and be given a tax bill for everything that was judged ‘relevant to the performance’. However, the tax laws stopped Uefa giving the final to Wembley, hence the exemption. But now other international sports stars such as tennis players and golfers are demanding an exemption as well which
This year’s Budget had attached to it a tax exemption from foreign-baxed footballers players in next year’s Champions League final at Wembley. Normally they would be required to fill in a tax form and be given a tax bill for everything that was judged ‘relevant to the performance’. However, the tax laws stopped Uefa giving the final to Wembley, hence the exemption. But now other international sports stars such as tennis players and golfers are demanding an exemption as well which poses problems at a time when every penny of tax revenue is needed to pay down national debt.