Tax. Simplified. | FIFA World Cup 2022 – Tactics and tax takeaways

In our latest Tax. Simplified. podcast episode, Tax Senior Associate Kaleem Khan and Associate Lewis Currie consider, at a high level, how some of the tax rules interact with the world of football (sometimes in surprising ways). With World Cup fever well underway, this is a timely juncture to consider some of the pertinent tax issues, including some of the tax issues which arise in relation to payments by football clubs for image rights, the tax treatment of player transfers, potential benefit in kind tax charges, as well as increased HMRC compliance activity in this sector.