Blue63 82 Posted February 8, 2013 Share Posted February 8, 2013 Olympic Games - Osborne offers tax break to lure Bolt to London Olympic champion Usain Bolt and other overseas athletes will be able to compete tax-free in this year's London Diamond League event at the Olympic Stadium after George Osborne agreed to a "one-off" exemption.Reuters – Thu, Feb 7, 2013 09:03 GMTEmail0PrintEurosport -10 - Usain Bolt - At the London Olympics, Bolt won the 100m gold medal with a time of 9.63 seconds, before a successful defence of his 200m gold medal in a time of 19.32s. Bolt …more was then a part of Jamaica’s world-record breaking 4x100m relay team to cap off another incredible Olympic display.less Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sergio 1,199 Posted February 8, 2013 Share Posted February 8, 2013 He'd Score for fun down there Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Godfather 72,059 Posted February 8, 2013 Share Posted February 8, 2013 Needs some work... Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
WadeWilson 4,670 Posted February 8, 2013 Share Posted February 8, 2013 Jamaican Bolt, who won three golds at last year's London Games, had not previously raced in the United Kingdom since 2009 because of tax rules which would have left him out of pocket."The Government is determined to do everything possible to secure the Olympic legacy and I am delighted to grant this exemption," the Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne, told Thursday's Daily Telegraph.The London meeting, switched from its traditional Crystal Palace home to the Olympic Stadium to mark the first anniversary of the Games on July 27, is expected to be a 80,000 sell-out and would have been damaged by the absence of athletes such as Bolt.British tax rules mean that visiting overseas athletes would have paid tax on their earnings from the meeting but also on part of their global income including sponsorship deals.Despite Osborne's intervention, Bolt has yet to confirm his attendance."I think it's about two weeks before the World Championships (in Moscow), which is quite late, but it's London and it's the Olympic Stadium again so it obviously has an attraction," his agent Ricky Simms said.Must be the same in France with Beckham refusing wages so that his image rights, sponsorships, etc are not taxed. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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