As an Irish citizen, Bob Geldof’s non-domicile status in the UK allows him to legally avoid tax on his international earnings

After Band Aid and Live Aid, Bob Geldof may need to organise a new concert: Tax Aid. The anti-poverty campaigner and Boomtown Rats singer is embroiled in a legal wrangle over claims of tax avoidance and fraud.

The funding of his 2011 album, How to Compose Popular Songs That Will Sell, was at the centre of a High Court hearing last week that heard allegations of a “complex financial fraud”.

The cover of Geldof’s 2011 solo album

The Irish-born singer-songwriter admitted before the launch of his first solo album in a decade that it was “unlikely to sell well”. He was right — it spent a single week in the album charts, making it to 89th place in February 2011.

As things turned out, he might have called it: How to Compose