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.
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
Like the rest of them, hes more than happy to tax other peoples earnings, for using his things. He loves it. In fact, its his favourite part.
So, I hope no one reading this ever confuses business owners and landbastards hatred of taxes with a moral position.
They just don’t think it should apply to them.
It’s so crazy how many young guys choose this clown as their role model…
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.
There’s an unlimited supply of great role models on the internet. It just takes a few minutes of effort to find them, because algorithmic feeds that are optimized for outrage/engagement to serve more ads are slightly easier to consume.
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.
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.
He had a lifestyle where he was constantly sleeping with different women, saying whatever garbage he wanted, very wealthy, and made his money running cons instead of real work.
I get it, I don’t approve, but I get why some angry 17 year old would want that. By the time you hit 17 or so you already know the game is rigged, the trick is to get to 30 where you are too apathetic to care.
He’s not a good person but some of the things he says are things that almost every young man resonates with. Feeling worthless, being lonely, wanting something to strive for, having no purpose, the feeling that life is unfair to you but you can’t complain, or social stuff is hard.
It’s not the solutions he proposed that made him popular, but the problems he raised.
Now let’s be clear here, he’s a slimy criminal with a ton of different schemes running concurrently, but at face value we still haven’t found the time to address the problems he raised. The void he leaves is exploitable unless we get someone righteous who takes his place to inspire young men. And no, I don’t think there’s role models right now that can take his place, at least not with that reach or that charisma.
Nevermind the rapes and human trafficking eh?
We got Al Capone on tax charges too. Whatever works once you’ve hit international fame levels of fuckery.
not nevermind, just, prosecute and imprison on whatever you can. it’s how they put Capone away, and I could see these fuckwit scumbags dying of syphilis in prison like Capone.
I’m shocked. Shocked!
This man should not be considered a role model. I cannot wait for the day the world forgets about him.
