Rupert Grint attends the “Knock on the Cabin” UK Particular Screening at Vue West Finish on January 25, 2023 in London, England.
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Former “Harry Potter” movie actor Rupert Grint faces a 1.8 million-pound ($2.3 million) invoice after he misplaced a authorized battle with the tax authorities.
Grint, who performed Ron Weasley within the magical movie franchise, was ordered to pay the cash in 2019 after H.M. Income and Customs, the U.Ok. tax company, investigated his tax return from seven years earlier.
The company mentioned Grint had wrongly classed 4.5 million kilos in residuals from the flicks — cash from DVD gross sales, TV syndication, streaming rights and different sources — as a capital asset reasonably than earnings, which is topic to a a lot increased tax price.
Attorneys for Grint appealed, however after years of wrangling a tribunal choose dominated in opposition to the actor this week. Choose Harriet Morgan mentioned the cash “derived considerably the entire of its worth from the actions of Mr. Grint” and “is taxable as earnings.”
Grint, 36, starred in all eight Harry Potter movies between 2001 and 2011 because the boy wizard’s greatest good friend, and is calculated to have earned round 24 million kilos from the function.
He beforehand misplaced a separate courtroom battle over a 1 million pound tax refund in 2019.
