John Barnes: Ex-England and Liverpool star banned as company director over unpaid taxes

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Across a football career lasting almost two decades, John Barnes earned 79 caps for England before retiring. In 2012 he founded John Barnes Media Limited - a company which would fold less than a decade later and spend two years paying no tax whatsoever.

John Barnes has been banned as a director after his company failed to pay almost £200,000 in tax. The ex-England and Liverpool star signed a disqualification undertaking which barred him from being a company director for three-and-a-half years, the Insolvency Service has said. This came about because his company John Barnes Media Limited, failed to pay any corporation tax and VAT from 2018 to 2020 The Insolvency Service launched an investigation in September 2023.

The company also failed to £115,272 in VAT from February 2019 to 2020. Across a playing career spanning almost two decades, Barnes earned 79 caps for England before he formed John Barnes Media Limited in September 2012. Mike Smith, chief investigator at the Insolvency Service, said: 'Individuals and businesses not paying the tax they should deprives the government of the funding it needs to provide vital public services and investment in areas such as schools, hospitals and roads.

 

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