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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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[–] phdepressed@sh.itjust.works 4 points 4 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 8 points 4 months ago

And the algorithms are actively pushing them away from the good role models toward the controversial videos.

[–] dactylotheca@suppo.fi 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

There are few if any good female role models for the same type of spaces.

This is such an odd take that I'm really not sure what type of spaces you're referring to exactly

[–] phdepressed@sh.itjust.works 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Spaces of anger at life. Of "edginess" bordering into the "isms" (racism, antisemitism, sexism etc) as proof of how much you don't give a fuck. That exists for many (usually depressed) teens. These spaces exist for both young men and women and lead into listening to the same type of shit takes. These spaces basically algorithmically get "edgier" and edgier until they are actually racist, sexist, etc. Any good role model who chances upon this and tries to engage is drowned out derided and shunned (either for not understanding "we're just being edgy, man" to "heres some 'articles' about phrenology and the replacement theory that looks real emough to most people" until the good person leaves.

The female equivalent to Tate would be something like a "tradwife" vlogger. They may not be as infamous but there's a lot of them and they aren't better.

A woman watching tradwife vlogs and a man watching Tate are both upset about various things in society. Many of which are reasonable, the cost of living, being able to find a partner, why the government doesn't work for them, whether there is any meaning in their life basically. They only get the perspective of get rich, fuck women or find a rich man and make babies/take care of the house.

[–] dactylotheca@suppo.fi 0 points 4 months ago

Ah right yes, I get what you mean, definitely agree with that