Decision due in case where Tate brothers face claims they owe millions in tax
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Controversial influencer Andrew Tate and his brother Tristan will discover on Wednesday whether they will have to forfeit £2.8 million over claims they owe millions in unpaid tax. Devon and Cornwall Police is making a legal bid to seize the money, held in seven frozen bank accounts, from the Tates and a woman identified only as J.
Judgment is due to be handed down by chief magistrate Paul Goldspring at Westminster Magistrates’ Court on Wednesday. In July at an earlier hearing, Sarah Clarke KC, representing the force, told Westminster Magistrates’ Court that the brothers are “serial tax and VAT evaders”.
It is alleged that they failed to pay a penny in tax on £21 million of revenue from their online businesses including War Room, Hustlers’ University, Cobra Tate and OnlyFans between 2014 and 2022. Ms Clarke quoted from a video posted online by Andrew Tate, in which he said: “When I lived in England I refused to pay tax.”.
The court heard he said his approach was “ignore, ignore, ignore because in the end they go away”. It is claimed that the brothers paid just under 12 million US dollars into an account in the name of J, and opened a second account in her name, even though she had no role in their businesses.
Part of the money that Devon and Cornwall Police wish to seize is cryptocurrency held in an account in her name. J received a payment of £805,000 into her Revolut account, the court heard. Of this, £495,000 was paid to Andrew Tate, and £75,000 to an account in J’s name that was later converted to cryptocurrency, it is alleged.
