McManus 'not popular' with Revenue, lawyer claims
US tax case arose from marathon backgammon game, writes Barry J Whyte
A lawyer for billionaire Irish businessman JP McManus has claimed that he may be unpopular with Revenue because he is wealthy, well-known and paid no tax for 15 years.
The claim came in at a hearing in the US Court of Federal Claims in Washington yesterday. The racehorse owneris taking legal action to try to recoup $5.2m (€4.6m) in taxes that he says should not have been withheld from $17.4m that he made ...
