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Football: Unpaid Taxes

Question for Treasury

UIN 106318, tabled on 20 October 2020

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much in total is owed by football clubs playing in the English Football League to HMRC in overdue unpaid taxes.

Answered on

23 October 2020

The total of overdue taxes is £77,612,777 excluding VAT which is auto-deferred to 31 March 2021 and Month 6 PAYE payments.

This is broken down by league as:

Debt

Championship

£59,127,124

League 1

£13,637,069

League 2

£4,848,583

Total

£77,612,777

Answered by

Treasury
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