Tax in sport

As well as extensive knowledge of corporation tax, VAT and stamp duty land tax, we provide the highest-quality advice and proactive, expert recommendations on the tax implications of all corporate activity.

This includes mergers and acquisitions, banking and lending, property investment, asset finance, litigation with HMRC, share schemes and management incentivisation, corporate re-organisations or demergers, tax planning for entrepreneurs and cash extraction.

We have experience advising sports clubs, sports bodies and athletes in relation to the tax treatment of image rights, on direct tax, VAT and SDLT treatment of the disposal of land, and the structuring of salary and/ or bonus sacrifice schemes.

Our clients value us not only for our clear and conservative advice, but also for our proactive approach to providing practical recommendations on how current legislation and case law affects their tax position and how best to navigate that legislation. Although we do not and have never promoted aggressive tax planning techniques, we’ll always look at how a transaction can be structured to mitigate our clients’ tax liabilities as fully as the law appears to allow.