EXCLUSIVE: Lip Sync Productions, the British film and TV investor behind titles including The Brutalist and Viggo Mortensen’s Falling, has been named and shamed by the UK’s tax authorities.
HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) said Lip Sync Productions, a sister company to the collapsed Lipsync post-house, was at the top of its most recently published list of “deliberate tax defaulters.”
HMRC revealed that Lip Sync Productions failed to pay a £14.1M ($19M) tax bill between 2019 and 2023, meaning it had been slapped with a penalty of £7M. There is no suggestion that third parties involved in Lip Sync’s film projects were aware of the tax default.
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Peter Hampden, the owner and director of Lip Sync Productions, did not respond to a request for comment. Hampden’s co-founder, Norman Merry, died last year after being diagnosed with cancer.
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