Chris Moyles apologises over tax avoidance scheme, Twitter still thinks he’s a moron
Chris Moyles claimed he was a used car salesman at a company called Working Wheels to avoid paying tax (Picture: PA)
Chris Moyles has said he accepts ‘full responsibility’ after it emerged he claimed to be a second-hand car dealer as part of a tax avoidance scheme.
The former Radio 1 DJ, who turns 40 today, pretended to have made a loss as a Working Wheels salesman to avoid paying tax on £1 million of his income between 2007 and 2008.
Setting the record straight, he tweeted last night: ‘I want to comment about a recent tribunal tax ruling.
‘Upon advice, I signed up to a scheme which I was assured was legal. Despite this, my knowledge of the dealings of the scheme were naive.
‘I’m not a tax expert and acted on advice I was given. This was a mistake.
‘I take full responsibility and have learnt a valuable lesson,’ he added.
A tribunal ruled that it was ‘quite clear’ Moyles had ‘entered the scheme for no purpose other than to achieve a tax saving, and that he took no interest in the trade’.
Unsurprisingly, Twitter users were not feeling too sympathetic this morning.
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