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Lewis Hamilton’s failure to pay tax on air miles may backfire spectacularly | Marina Hyde

Four-time F1 world champion’s hopes of a knighthood may have taken a hit after the Paradise Papers but he still has BBC sports personality of the year to aim forLike everyone who wells up when he towels champagne off himself with the union jack, I was shocked to see Lewis Hamilton crop up in the Paradise Papers. Among other eye-rollers, the Formula One world champion is accused of a tax avoidance scheme that involved him renting his own £16.5m private jet from himself. Is it worse than Bono? I don’t know. I’ll tell you when my sedation wears off.For now, the shock has given way to two major concerns. The first is that this might be a bit of a...

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