TELLY favourite Holly Willoughby’s media company has been dragged to court over an unpaid tax bill.
Roxy Media — set up by the Dancing on Ice host and hubby Dan Baldwin in 2008 — was hit with a winding up order, meaning the business has been unable to pay its debt.
Holly Willoughby’s media company has been dragged into court over an unpaid tax bill[/caption]
Holly set up Roxy Media with her husband Dan Baldwin[/caption]
The amount in question is not known but the latest publicly available accounts from 2023 show the firm owed £330,000 in corporation tax.
The HMRC petition was due to be heard yesterday in the Insolvency and Companies Court in central London, but Judge Sally Barber accepted an adjournment until April.
Roxy Media deals with TV show “production activities”, according to its listing on Companies House.
Last night, HMRC said: “We take a supportive approach to dealing with customers who have tax debts and only file winding-up petitions once we’ve exhausted all other options, in order to protect taxpayers’ money.”
Holly is just the latest celeb to see a company taken to court over disputed tax payments.
Stars including broadcasters Jeremy Vine, Gary Lineker, Eamonn Holmes, Adrian Chiles, and Lorraine Kelly have all faced battles over whether presenters using personal companies are taxed as self-employed or as direct employees.
Last week The Sun reported that millionaire Premier League star Oleksandr Zinchenko lost a court battle over an undisclosed sum.
Tax officials wanted to close his company Alex Zinchenko Image Rights over an unpaid tax bill, but representatives promised the bill would be settled at a High Court hearing.
No figures of the tax owed were made public at the hearing which lasted only a few minutes.
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