ACTOR’ S GIFT TO YOUTH CLUB
808 HOPE MAY FACE £ll,OOO TAX BILL (Rec. 6.40 p.m.) LONDON, Dec. 29. The actor Bob Hope may face an £ll,OOO income tax bill in Britain on a gift he made to a youth club in one of South London’s poorest districts last April. Hope earned £15.000 in two weeks with a show in London’s West End, and gave the entire amount to a youth centre called Clubland, run by the Rev. James Butterworth, a Methodist minister. Now the Inland Revenue Department has sent a tax claim to the club. “A man cannot avoid income tax just by giving his salary away,” an Inland Revenue spokesman said today. Mr Butterworth said: “I don’t know what we can do about it. We spent most of the money in repairing bomb damage. But for Bob we should have had to close the club altogether. It started in 1922 and cost £lOO.OOO before it was opened by Queen Mary. The club is prepared to go to court to fight the tax demand.”
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Press, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 26617, 31 December 1951, Page 4
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