Sports minister offers to look into Bolt tax situation 14/07/2010 |
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British sports minister Hugh Robertson has offered to step in to help Usain Bolt sort out the tax issues that are stopping the Jamaican running in London in August.
The Triple Olympic champion had been due to compete at the Diamond League meeting at Crystal Palace next month but pulled out this week citing Britain’s tax laws, which stipulate that foreign sports stars have to pay taxes on their worldwide endorsements.
"If there is a particular problem [with Bolt] I'm happy to look at it and see if I can help," Robertson told the BBC.
"I've not had a direct approach from either the sport's governing body [UK Athletics] or the promoters of the Crystal Palace meeting [Fast Track] so I don't know exactly what we are dealing with here.
"It is a problem we have come across and addressed with other sports and clearly if they write to me I will take it up with the treasury.
"Golfers and tennis players have come to me, and I'm pretty sure that at the back end of the 2012 Olympic bill is a commitment not to tax overseas stars who come over to compete in the Olympics."
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