{"id":129645,"date":"2023-09-06T17:15:19","date_gmt":"2023-09-06T17:15:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluemull.com\/?p=129645"},"modified":"2023-09-06T17:15:19","modified_gmt":"2023-09-06T17:15:19","slug":"ex-liverpool-star-john-barnes-owes-238000-in-tax-court-told","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluemull.com\/world-news\/ex-liverpool-star-john-barnes-owes-238000-in-tax-court-told\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Liverpool star John Barnes owes \u00a3238,000 in tax, court told"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Ex-Liverpool star John Barnes owes \u00a3238,000 in tax, court told &#8211; as officials lodge bankruptcy petition against former footballer<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Former Liverpool winger John Barnes, 59, owes \u00a3238,000 to HMRC<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Tax officials lodged a bankruptcy petition against the ex-Celtic manager<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>This is the second time HMRC has gone after Barnes\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Ex-Liverpool star John Barnes claims he needs &#8216;a bit of time&#8217; to pay off an unpaid bill of \u00a3238,000 owed to UK tax authorities.<\/p>\n<p>HM Revenue &amp; Customs are going after the former winger, 59, in a specialist court in London, after officials filed a bankruptcy petition against him.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Barnes, who won 79 caps over his career as a footballer, was not present at the\u00a0Insolvency &amp; Companies Court on Wednesday when Judge Catherine Burton considered the case.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Instead, barrister Nathan Webb, who represented Barnes, told the judge that his client &#8216;just&#8217; needed time to pay and asked for an adjournment.<\/p>\n<p>He said Barnes was employed by Liverpool Football Club &#8216;on a salary of \u00a3200,000&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/06\/17\/75131737-12488051-image-m-38_1694017638986.jpg\" height=\"576\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>A barrister representing John Barnes (pictured) said he needed &#8216;a bit more time&#8217; to pay the eyewatering tax bill<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/06\/17\/75131739-12488051-image-m-37_1694017627958.jpg\" height=\"738\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Barnes, who won 79 caps over his career as a footballer, was not present at the Insolvency &amp; Companies Court when his case was heard on Wednesday\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/06\/17\/75131741-12488051-image-m-36_1694017620603.jpg\" height=\"368\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>He currently works as a &#8216;club ambassador&#8217; for Liverpool FC<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Mr Barnes is very well and able to pay,&#8217; Mr Webb told Judge Burton.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;He just requires a bit of time.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Liverpool FC said in November that Barnes had been appointed as a &#8216;club ambassador&#8217; &#8211; a role that would &#8216;see him represent the Reds at home and abroad&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>The judge made no orders during the case, and said the case would be reconsidered later in the year on November 29.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This isn&#8217;t the first time UK tax officials have gone after Barnes, the former head coach at Celtic.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Another judge dismissed a separate bankruptcy petition lodged by tax officials against him in June.<\/p>\n<p>HMRC officials had indicated, during that earlier litigation, that Barnes had owed at least \u00a3200,000.<\/p>\n<p>They had told a judge at the time that money owed had been paid.<\/p>\n<p>Barnes spent 10 years at Anfield, but also played for Watford and Newcastle United. He went on to manage Celtic, Jamaica and Tranmere Rovers.<\/p>\n<p>He won two league titles and two FA Cups with Liverpool. He was also named Footballer of the Year award in 1988 and 1990.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Last year, he courted controversy when he accused the British public of &#8216;bullying&#8217; Qatar during the World Cup.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He claimed that fans from western countries needed to &#8216;stop lecturing&#8217; Qatar for its human rights record.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-12488051\/Ex-Liverpool-star-John-Barnes-owes-238-000-tax-court-told-officials-lodge-bankruptcy-petition-against-former-footballer.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ex-Liverpool star John Barnes owes \u00a3238,000 in tax, court told &#8211; as officials lodge bankruptcy petition against former footballer Former&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Ex-Liverpool star John Barnes owes \u00a3238,000 in tax, court told - bluemull<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/bluemull.com\/world-news\/ex-liverpool-star-john-barnes-owes-238000-in-tax-court-told\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Ex-Liverpool star John Barnes owes \u00a3238,000 in tax, court told - bluemull\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Ex-Liverpool star John Barnes owes \u00a3238,000 in tax, court told &#8211; 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