Emma Bunton has reportedly found herself in a battle over her £4M earnings from the Spice Girls’ 2019 reunion tour.
Baby Spice, 48, joined her bandmates, Mel B, Geri Horner and Mel C, to perform as a foursome without Victoria Beckham, in 13 sold-out gigs across the UK which raked over £60M in overall ticket sales.
According to The Sun for her part Emma was paid a whopping £3,929,282, before placing her company, that she had set up to handle her show earnings, into voluntary liquidation in 2021.
The publication reports that after already paying £748,014 in corporation tax and believing the matter was settled, the singer has since been slapped with a further bill of £185,006.
Claiming that HMRC also believes that Emma has a third debt to pay.
Emma Bunton, 48, has reportedly found herself in a battle over her £4M earnings from the Spice Girls’ 2019 reunion tour
Baby Spice joined her bandmates to perform as a foursome without Victoria Beckham, in 13 sold-out gigs across the UK which raked over £60M in overall ticket sales (pictured)
Liquidators for her company Monsta Touring Ltd told the newspaper: ‘Our understanding was that all tax had already been paid. Since March 2023 we have been in correspondence with HMRC to resolve the position. This is ongoing.’
MailOnline have contacted Emma’s reps for comment.
Meanwhile fellow Spice Girl Mel C made a surprise appearance during Orbital’s set at the Glastonbury festival last month and is determined to play another show at Worthy Farm alone after her 2023 performance.
Opening up about the prospect of this in The Sun’s Bizarre column, the Spice Girls star, 50, admitted: ‘It would be quite nice to do it my own.
‘I will have some new music out next year. I’ve only done it once myself, last year. The year before I had DJ’d.’
The singer said that a solo slot at Glastonbury would be a good alternative to the ‘ultimate’ goal of reuniting with Spice Girls bandmates for a performance at the world-famous festival.
Melanie explained: ‘There’s room for both me and the girls, but with them it would be the ultimate.
‘There’s nothing I would like more than to do it with the Spice Girls… but while they’re making their mind up, I could! The girls have never been at Glastonbury because it didn’t do pop in the Nineties.’
According to reports for her part Emma was paid a whopping £3,929,282, before placing her company, that she had set up to handle her show earnings, into voluntary liquidation in 2021
Liquidators for her company told the newspaper: ‘Our understanding was that all tax had already been paid. Since March 2023 we have been in correspondence with HMRC’
After already paying £748,014 in corporation tax and believing the matter was settled, the singer has since been slapped with a further bill of £185,006
The star revealed earlier this year that she would love to reunite with the Spice Girls but dismissed Mel B’s claims that the ‘Wannabe’ hitmakers were on the brink of a comeback.
During an appearance on the ‘Sidetracked’ podcast, Melanie explained: ‘Mel, I adore her and she has this thing, and it can sometimes get us into hot water.
‘Of course we’re always talking, we’d love to do something else.
‘I’d love to get back on stage with the girls but everybody wants to do something a little bit different or in a different way, so it’s just trying to get everyone on the same page at the same time.
‘But Melanie likes to manifest things and she thinks if she says it enough, it will happen.
‘I can’t confirm that there is anything happening soon but we’re always talking about opportunities.’
It comes following Mel C revealing her hopes of the band reuniting for Glastonbury (Pictured in 1995L-R: Geri Halliwell, Victoria Beckham, Emma Bunton, Melanie Brown and Melanie Chisholm)
