Social media influencer Andrew Tate and his brother Tristan have been accused of failing to pay a penny in tax on millions of revenue from their online businesses.
Devon and Cornwall Police in England are bringing a civil claim against the brothers and a third person referred to only as J over unpaid tax, Westminster Magistrates’ Court in London heard on Monday.
Sarah Clarke KC for Devon and Cornwall Police said: “Andrew Tate and Tristan Tate are serial tax and VAT evaders.
“They, in particular Andrew Tate, are brazen about it.”
It is claimed that they paid no tax in any country on £21 million (€24.8 million) revenue from businesses online earned 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”.
The court also heard that the brothers had “a huge number of bank accounts” in the UK, seven of which have been frozen.
Ms Clarke said that money “washed around UK bank accounts”, that were used “as a mechanism for moving revenues from their business activities through a wide number of accounts”.
“That’s what tax evasion looks like, that’s what money laundering looks like,” she told the court.
The money came from products they sold online as well as their OnlyFans sites, the court was told.
