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John Barnes has been banned as a director after his company failed to pay almost £200,000 in tax.
The ex-England and Liverpool star signed a disqualification undertaking which barred him from being a company director for three-and-a-half years, the Insolvency Service has said.
This came about because his company John Barnes Media Limited, failed to pay any corporation tax and VAT from 2018 to 2020
The Insolvency Service launched an investigation in September 2023.
Barnes was the sole director of the company, based in West Byfleet, Surrey, which said it offered media representation services.
From November 2018 to October 2020, John Barnes Media had a turnover of £441,798.
Over this period, nothing was paid to HMRC.
This was despite the fact the company filed returns showing what the VAT payments should have been.
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The investigation showed that the company failed to pay £78,839 in corporation tax from August 2018 to January 2020 – when it ceased trading.
The company also failed to £115,272 in VAT from February 2019 to 2020.
Across a playing career spanning almost two decades, Barnes earned 79 caps for England before he formed John Barnes Media Limited in September 2012.
Mike Smith, chief investigator at the Insolvency Service, said: “Individuals and businesses not paying the tax they should deprives the…
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