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Liberty steers F1 around the tax man

Regular readers of this website may remember an article from November about a report on ITV's News at Ten which revealed that F1 paid just $6.5m in tax on profits of $463.6m last year. John Malone, chairman of F1's incoming owner Liberty Media, described it as a 'great structure' whilst Liberty's boss Greg Maffei said the tax arrangement is 'attractive'. An article in the Guardian by Christian Sylt has now revealed that Liberty liked it so much that they copied it in America. To recap, the tax trick under F1's bonnet involves huge internal loans being given by the sport's offshore parent companies to their UK-based subsidiaries. The UK companies make the vast majority of F1's money from...
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