By Ed Riley For Mailonline
Published: 08:33 GMT, 15 January 2019 | Updated: 09:07 GMT, 15 January 2019
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Former Premier League striker Marcus Bent has been declared bankrupt after 'owing millions' in unpaid tax.
The former Everton, Ipswich Town and Charlton star, 40, earned up to £10million from football, pocketing up to £1million a year.
But he was made bankrupt in the High Court after failing to pay HMRC several large tax bills, it has been reported.
Sources said the debt ran into 'seven figures' and was because of Bent's involvement in a number of failed tax avoidance schemes.
Marcus Bent (pictured left, outside Guildford Crown Court with his partner when he was on trial for affray in charged with affray in February 2016) and right during his playing days with Everton in a match against Newcastle United in 2005) was declared bankrupt at the High Court
Official documents show he invested in five film-based schemes, The Sun reports.
It comes just four years after he dodged jail when he attacked police during a cocaine-fuelled stand off.
