{"id":2382,"date":"2025-06-22T18:31:39","date_gmt":"2025-06-22T18:31:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/taxinvestigation.co\/new\/?p=2382"},"modified":"2025-06-22T18:31:40","modified_gmt":"2025-06-22T18:31:40","slug":"in-football-image-is-all-by-graham-hambly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/taxinvestigation.co\/new\/in-football-image-is-all-by-graham-hambly\/","title":{"rendered":"In football, image is all&#8230; by Graham Hambly"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>Graham Hambly recently chaired a seminar on football finance, guest-starring four football finance experts. Here<\/em>\u2019<em>s how the evening unfolded<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tax and HMRC took centre stage at the recent \u2018No Accounting 4 the Love of Football \u2019seminar, sponsored by HMRC Enquires Investigations &amp; Powers magazine, along with the ACCA and ICAEW.<br><br>One of the key note speakers was King\u2019s Counsel\u2019s Patrick Way. He explained that HMRC has a big thing about image rights. Remember, you don\u2019t pay tax on overseas earnings until you bring them into the UK, he told the packed audience at London\u2019s Crypt on the Green. But, as we all know, HMRC doesn\u2019t like the fact that so many international footballers don\u2019t want to pay tax on those image rights. There is also the added complication of agents\u2019 fees, said Way.<br><br>Mediation with HMRC could be the way forward, as he is representing a famous football who has got valuable image rights. HMRC want to split the fee between the footballer and club, as HMRC say the footballer \u2018got benefits\u2019. Way was waiting for his meeting, and said he was going in with an open mind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Download the full article below:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div data-wp-interactive=\"core\/file\" class=\"wp-block-file\"><object data-wp-bind--hidden=\"!state.hasPdfPreview\" hidden class=\"wp-block-file__embed\" data=\"https:\/\/taxinvestigation.co\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/In-football-image-is-all\u2026-by-Graham-Hambly-.pdf\" type=\"application\/pdf\" style=\"width:100%;height:600px\" aria-label=\"Embed of In football, image is all\u2026 by Graham Hambly.\"><\/object><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-ae6fc3d2-e7e1-4d9b-bcf9-d0c0cefa14af\" href=\"https:\/\/taxinvestigation.co\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/In-football-image-is-all\u2026-by-Graham-Hambly-.pdf\">In football, image is all\u2026 by Graham Hambly<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/taxinvestigation.co\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/In-football-image-is-all\u2026-by-Graham-Hambly-.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button wp-element-button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-ae6fc3d2-e7e1-4d9b-bcf9-d0c0cefa14af\">Download<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Graham Hambly recently chaired a seminar on football finance, guest-starring four football finance experts. Here\u2019s how the evening unfolded Tax and HMRC took centre stage at the recent \u2018No Accounting 4 the Love of Football \u2019seminar, sponsored by HMRC Enquires Investigations &amp; Powers magazine, along with the ACCA and ICAEW. One of the key note [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[70],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2382","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-june-july-2024"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/taxinvestigation.co\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/taxinvestigation.co\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/taxinvestigation.co\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taxinvestigation.co\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taxinvestigation.co\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2382"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/taxinvestigation.co\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2382\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2384,"href":"https:\/\/taxinvestigation.co\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2382\/revisions\/2384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/taxinvestigation.co\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taxinvestigation.co\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taxinvestigation.co\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}