Eamonn Holmes 'bitter' after being 'forced' to sell Belfast home following 'stressful' tax row
22.01.2024 - 16:13
/ dailyrecord.co.uk
Eamonn Holmes claims he’s been left “bitter” after being forced to sell a property in Northern Ireland following a tax dispute.
The GB News star revealed he’s lost two appeals against HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) which are said to have set him back “hundreds of thousands” in fees. The Mirror reports that tax officials ruled he was a staff member when he was working for ITV, not a freelancer as he claimed, but the former This Morning host insists he’s never been eligible for holiday pay, sick pay or company shares.
The ruling means that the presenter was being faced with a backdated national insurance and tax payment demand that spanned 10 years.
The reported bill was around £250,000, and forced Eamonn to sell up the Belfast home rather than scramble to find the cash.
He told his former UTV co-star Gerry Kelly: “I had a house here until six weeks ago when I was forced to sell it by the Inland Revenue (HMRC). It's something I’m very bitter about because people think you earn lots of money and therefore you have to pay. It’s like they have taken away everything I ever worked for.
People think it’s only the Eamonn Holmeses of this world that they’re after. But it’s not. The country is broken.”
Eamonn's first TV job was at UTV in 1979 when it was still known as Ulster TV. The star was a familiar face on ITV for almost 30 years and he hosted This Morning on Fridays and during holidays for 15 years before he and wife Ruth Langsford were replaced by Alison Hammond and Dermot O’Leary.
Last year the star opened up on the tax row and said it was the “the most stressful experience outside of losing my father”.
Eamonn was struck down with shingles in 2018 and he’s said previously he believes it was brought on because of the stress
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