Moyles pretended to be car salesman to avoid tax

Chris Moyles  leaving BBC Radio One after his last Breakfast Show
Chris Moyles leaving BBC Radio One after his last Breakfast Show
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Chris Moyles, the former BBC presenter, pretended to be a used-car salesman for a year in a failed attempt to avoid tax on £1 million.

Mr Moyles entered an aggressive tax avoidance scheme called Working Wheels, which required him tell HM Revenue & Customs that he had spent the 2007/8 tax year “engaged in self-employment as a used car trader”.

The self-styled “saviour of Radio 1” claimed on his tax return that he had sold £3,800 worth of second-hand cars.

But he also claimed to have run up losses of £1million, which he then tried to use to avoid tax on £1million of other income, primarily consisting of his estimated £700,000-a-year taxpayer-funded salary from the BBC.

In a damning judgment, a tax tribunal judge struck