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"Chris Moyles has been exposed as a member of an aggressive tax avoidance scheme after failing to keep his identity from being reported. The ex-Radio 1 DJ asked a court to grant him anonymity in a tax tribunal with HM Revenue &amp;amp; Customs because his human rights would be &amp;quot;infringed&amp;quot; and his career potentially damaged, according to The Times.  Moyles, who reportedly earned \u00C2\u00A3500,000 a year before leaving Radio 1, saw his case dismissed by Judge Colin Bishopp because of the &amp;quot;obvious public interest&amp;quot; in disproving &amp;quot;that riches or fame can buy anonymity&amp;quot;. HM Revenue &amp;amp; Customs has already confirmed that the legal tax scheme Moyles was a part of did not work. Summarising Moyles&amp;#039;s argument in a preliminary hearing, Bishopp said: &amp;quot;If it were to become public knowledge that he availed himself of a tax avoidance scheme, his career might be damaged and his earning capacity reduced. &amp;quot;He is already the focus of media interest for other reasons, much of it hostile.&amp;quot; However, Bishopp ruled: &amp;quot;The fact that a taxpayer is rich, or that he is in the public eye, does not seem to me to dictate a different approach.  &amp;quot;On the contrary, it may be that hearing the appeal of such a person in private would give rise to the suspicion that riches or fame can buy anonymity, and protection from the scrutiny which others cannot avoid.&amp;quot;  Judge Bishopp kept Moyles&amp;#039;s identity secret - referring to him as just &amp;#039;Mr A&amp;#039; - to give him time to appeal. Moyles is currently still under contract with the BBC and a spokesperson for the corporation said that aggressive tax avoidance on BBC income would &amp;quot;very likely&amp;quot; be seen as an infringement. However, it is not known whether Moyles tried to avoid tax on BBC earnings. In June, comedian Jimmy Carr was revealed to have been sheltering \u00C2\u00A33.3m in a Jersey-based scheme in order to pay as little as 1% tax. He later apologised for his involvement in the legal scheme, admitting that he &amp;quot;made a terrible error of judgement&amp;quot;.  "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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