Andrew Tate accused of £21 million tax evasion

Andrew Tate is no Al Capone – but he’s learning the Chicago mobster’s lesson that there are two things in life you cannot avoid: death and taxes. Devon and Cornwall Police have brought a civil claim at Westminster Magistrates’ Court against Tate and his brother Tristan over unpaid tax on £21 million earned between 2014 and 2022, seeking to recover around £2.8 million. Tate’s videos often offer tax advice, including: “if you have an online company based in Dubai and you’re making money online and the money is banked in Dubai then you don’t own the UK a f**king thing” and “another reason to use [pornographic website] Chaturbate is because they will pay you in bitcoin… so you don’t need to pay tax to anybody.” Both of these statements count as bad tax advice, especially for someone like Tate, who has US and UK citizenship (the US is one of only two countries in the world where taxes are based on citizenship, not place of residency – the other being Eritrea). “They can’t collect legal taxes from illegal money,” Capone said, before he was convicted on five counts of income tax evasion and jailed for eleven years.