Self-proclaimed misogynist ‘brazen’ about refusing to pay tax on revenue from online businesses, court told

Andrew Tate and his brother, Tristan, have been accused of failing to pay tax on £21m of revenue from their online businesses.

Devon and Cornwall police are bringing a civil claim against the brothers and a third person referred to as J over unpaid tax, Westminster magistrates’ court heard on Monday. The force is seeking about £2.8m in seven frozen bank accounts.

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 £21m revenue from businesses online earned between 2014 and 2022. Clarke quoted from a video posted online by Andrew Tate, in which the self-proclaimed misogynist 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.

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    There’s video footage of Andrew Tate from his Hustler’s University online courses where he instructs his pupils to use cryptocurrency to avoid taxes, and also describes his methods for duping his webcam models with fake complicated tax terminology so he can essentially steal their wages. Throw the book at him

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    It’s so crazy how many young guys choose this clown as their role model…

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      They have very few good role models to choose from. That’s part of the problem.

      There aren’t enough role models teaching them that you can be a man without being toxic to women.

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        This is true, but I can find a better role model on the bottom of my shoe. I wish people weren’t so susceptible to his type of bullshit.

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        There aren’t enough role models teaching them that you can be a man without being toxic to women.

        Is this really the problem, or is the problem that the sort of people with role models like Tate are the sort of people who wouldn’t gravitate towards non-toxic role models in the first place?

        Because if it’s actually true that there are very few good male role models to choose from, I’m not entirely sure what that tells us about men, exactly.

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          It’s more a factor of the format. There are few if any good female role models for the same type of spaces. The terminally online and angry at life teens aren’t interacting with the spaces where good role models are.

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      I mean, he comes across as an incredibly pathetic sad loser that has managed to gather some money and fame. His fans probably relate to the former and hope watching his videos and taking after him will lead to the latter. 🤷‍♂️

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      The dumb sex offender who went to jail because he didn’t hide his shitty Romanian pizza when he replied to a Greta Thunberg burn.

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      Listen to the others and preserve your innocence. He’s like a Pandora box that, once opened, will constantly remind you of its presence. Telling social media sites “stop showing me this type of content” does nothing except make him stop showing up in your feeds for a short time. But he comes back.

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      A weakling who I want to kill woth a Daneaxe, a prime example of a debauched profligate with neither morals nor forethought who was able to amass wealth and influence by staying under the radar to a degree. But once he was able to gain the fame that his kind crave due to their misinterpretation of fame equaling power he got himself into international legal troubles.

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    This is the best summary I could come up with:


    Andrew Tate and his brother, Tristan, have been accused of failing to pay tax on £21m of revenue from their online businesses.

    Devon and Cornwall police are bringing a civil claim against the brothers and a third person referred to as J over unpaid tax, Westminster magistrates’ court heard on Monday.

    Clarke quoted from a video posted online by Andrew Tate, in which the self-proclaimed misogynist said: “When I lived in England I refused to pay tax.”

    The court also heard that the brothers had a “huge number of bank accounts” in the UK, seven of which have been frozen.

    The Tates are accused of failing to pay tax and money laundering in both the UK and Romania, the court heard.

    Paul Goldspring, the chief magistrate, will decide on the balance of probabilities whether what the police claim is true.


    The original article contains 501 words, the summary contains 140 words. Saved 72%. I’m a bot and I’m open source!

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    Looks like they totally do just go away there, bud. You’re such a fucken genius. And dudes line up to give this guy top.

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    If they can pin de-frauding investors on it there will finally be some actual and meaningful consequences.

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    I’m not a fan of Tate and don’t like him at all but I have never once seen actual evidence of the claims. Which I find odd.

    If he truly did all these horrifying things, he should be sent to prison for good. However, I haven’t seen a single evidence of any claims. Perhaps it’s me not looking the right way.

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      Perhaps it’s me not looking the right way.

      Well…are you an officer, detective, or prosecutor working on a case against him? Lol

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      There isn’t any. For the most part he’s just mobbed on from people seeing 10 second clips of him bragging or saying what a woman should do.

      Their favorite influencer said something bad about them and now that’s their opinion too. Ya know like how most of everybody’s hate mobs are developed these days.