News Details

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...
Full Story »
Share

You May Also Be Interested In...

Liberty Media urges teams to buy into Formula 1

Liberty Media urges teams to buy into Formula 1 New F1 owner Liberty...
8y ago from ThisIsF1.com

Liberty Media: Important for teams to invest in F1

Formula One's new owner Liberty Media is still hoping that competing...
8y ago from GrandPrix247.com

Ecclestone: My F1 future now in Liberty's hands

Formula 1 supremo Bernie Ecclestone has admitted that there are now no...
8y ago from Motorsport.com

FIA approves Liberty Media's acquisition of Formula 1

The FIA has approved the acquisition of Formula 1 by Liberty Media...
8y ago from MotorsportWeek.com

Elsewhere On The Network

Popular On MGPToday.com

Popular On IndyCarToday.com

Popular On TotalWRC.com

Outback diplomacy: Finnish ambassador braves...

o Haapea hopes to raise $30,000 for cancer research as he navigates the...
1w ago from TheGuardian.com

Popular On GunnersToday.com

Barcelona Transfer News Roundup: Arsenal eyeing...

Barcelona travel to the Signal Iduna Park on Tuesday, April 15, to face...
1h ago from SportsKeeda.com

Real Madrid vs Arsenal: Vinicius Junior out to emulate...

Vincius Junior has the chance to emulate a feat only achieved by Cristiano...
2h ago from SportsMole.co.uk

‘Impossible’ for Arsenal to block out Real Madrid...

t;li>Talk of ‘remontada’ is rife despite 3-0 first-leg...
2h ago from TheGuardian.com

Sol Campbell claims Arsenal transfer target is more...

Arsenal icon Sol Campbell has claimed that the club's long-term transfer...
3h ago from SportsKeeda.com

Comments

Hottest News

Recent News


2014 GPToday.com
GPToday.com is not responsible for the news headlines and associated descriptions and images it indexes, the content of externally linked sites or the comments & postings of its users.

This website is unofficial and is not associated in any way with the Formula One group of companies. F1, FORMULA ONE, FORMULA 1, FIA FORMULA ONE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP, GRAND PRIX and related marks are trade marks of Formula One Licensing B.V.