Agassi wins UK taxation case

Non-resident entertainers and sports stars will not have to pay tax on non-UK sponsorship payments after tennis player Andre Agassi and his UK accountants Tenon Media won a case against the Inland Revenue. This came after Agassi lost his original appeal to the High Court earlier this year. The first appeal followed a Special Commissioners decision that he should pay income tax on sponsorship payments in connection with playing tennis in the UK. But Lord Justice Buxton, Lord Justice Sedley and Lord Justice Jacob ruled in the Court of Appeal that Agassi is not liable to pay UK tax when his ...