UK Sports Bodies and Broadcasters Urge Tax Relief for Women’s Coverage

Broadcasters and governing bodies make tax plea for TV coverage of women’s sport

Letter sent to chancellor, John Healey, on Friday ‘Audience demand for women’s sport is growing’ The chief executives of the Football Association, Rugby Football Union and England and Wales Cricket Board have joined forces with leading broadcasters and YouTube in writing to the chancellor requesting tax credits for production companies to help deliver more television coverage of women’s sport. In a letter signed by 25 representatives of the country’s biggest sports and broadcasters, includi...

By Matt Hughes