For any football club to be licenced to play in Uefa competition it has to be up to date with social taxes. The world wondered why in the years prior to their liquidation owing tens of millions to HRMC, Rangers managed to remain up to date for every licence application (made through the SFA).
Football authorities are bound by certain limitations. They can oblige clubs to make them aware of any overdue taxes, but if this information is not forthcoming, they have no powers to demand information from the tax authorise. In short, if you lie, you will get away with it, until and unless you are caught.
Nor can football authorities deal in information of dubious probity. “Some guy on the internet gave me this document” which they should not legally be in possession of, is not the basis to charge a club.
At Craig Whyte’s trial at Glasgow High Court this morning, former director of former Rangers, Donald McIntyre, faced questions from defending counsel and also former director of former Rangers, Donald Findlay.
McIntyre was shown a document dated 2010 from HMRC to Rangers saying tax for PAYE and National Insurance was due on Rangers Discount Options Scheme (DOS), involving players Tore Andre Flo, Craig Moor and Ronald de-Boer was “payable in full”. This tax was never paid and £500k of interest accrued until the club went into liquidation.
McIntyre told the court Rangers had “no choice but to accept liability” as due to the existence of a “side letter”.
Despite this, Rangers signed off their licence application in March 2011, which enabled them to take Scotland’s Champions League qualification spot for season 2011-12.
The irony of this information coming out in a fraud trial will not have escaped you. Some key points:
Information that Rangers were overdue to HMRC prior to their Uefa licence application in 2011 has been confirmed by a competent officer of the company for the first time, in open court.
Rangers DOS scheme for Flo, Moore and Ronald De-Boer was not subject to the SPL’s Lord Nimmo Smith Commission inquiry and has not, thus far, been investigated.
Mr McIntyre is still in the witness box giving evidence.
A note of caution: this is all new information, and anyone who tells you there is an easy way to navigate to the desired outcome is almost certainly overlooking a great deal. It has taken time and patience to get here, both of which are still needed. The banner above is a manifestation of someone else’s neurosis. It’s not the actual truth, so realise this or, as they say, keep taking the pills. What you can be assured of, is that no stone will be left unturned.
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HMRC Tax Raids…………….. hmmm!
One wonders if they were given an ‘Amber’ light? A Supreme Court heads-up? Maybe a massive pre-Election titbit for the Proletariat Rags?
Pure speculation on my part. :-)
Why have HMRC pushed the button? Have they won the case v the huns?
Murray says can’t give precise details of how many times Rangers used Ticketus, agrees was “from time to time”
#WhyteTrial
Hmmmm
ERNIE LYNCH on 26TH APRIL 2017 10:55 AM
The cross examination will be interesting.
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That’s an understatement.
Just seen next season-s home jersey, in a 1967 style….”
BRT&H
Thanks again for. Your reply.
I get all of what you say and the difficulties you face on this at every turn. As I did prior to Canamalar and Auldheids posts and subsequently your own post.
My only fear was that fractures were appearing in the views/direction of Res12 specifically within the group of requisitioners.
I am pleased that these fears have now been proven wrong.
I, as you are aware, don’t trust the PLC as far as I could throw SDM. Their powder drying expertise is legendary.
I hope for a little more than a damp squib but my grounding distrust expects less than a damp squib from our PLC. Personally I expect all others to be dismissive Outwith our club. I hold them to higher standards however. Sadly standards they rarely meet when it comes to actions that I feel they should be driving rather than road blocking.
MWD
“The cross examination will be interesting”
Ernie,
Does Donald do crosses? :)
HH
Murray says financial situation of club was “manageable”
#WhyteTrial
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But he didn’t pay wee tax case and sold it for a quid? Open goals galore here for Donald.
Andrew Black of the BBC fond of referring to Murray as “Sir David”. Well…it’s good to get mileage out of the title while he still has it…
Murray says club agreed to pay £2.8m over “small tax case”
Says EBTs “were not contractual” and were “in the accounts”
#WhyteTrial
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Murray on EBTs: “Gave us the opportunity to get players we otherwise couldn’t afford”
#WhyteTrial
HUNDERBIRDSAREGONE 1052
All done in the best possible taste,absolutely superb!
HH
Murray on EBTs: “Gave us the opportunity to get players we otherwise couldn’t afford”
The timreaper,
I think Murray has just shot himself in the foot with that revelation.
HH
Court now being shown email from Gary Withey to Murray’s lawyer Oct 2010. Says “up to £33m of funding” available for the acquisition.
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‘Up to’ could be anything from £0.01
new article posted.
BRTH,
Disagree on your take on taking an isolated part of P67s article, after rereading a couple of times paragraphs 2 & 3 are statements that stand on their own and are not relevant to the rest of his discussion. They are reported as fact and that is what irked me the most.
As for the provenance issue, the daily record report about rangers chairman making a statement about the DOS needing to be paid all highlighted on the relevant sections, sat in your inbox for about a year while the Charlotte fakes stuff was mulled over and debated to death. So the Charlotte fakes provenance issue should have been short circuited when the Plc raised it and replaced with the published announcements. No a dig, I know everyone was very busy and following their own line of thought but I was very frustrated at the lack of acknowledgement to what I thought and turned out to be the silver bullet, and it is still played down by the Plc, yep they told us that statement was part of their reasoning behind their original letter in December but that letter was IMO too little too late. As has most of their action throughout this shambles. The Plc would have known the dates the license applications were submitted so the time to be asking the question was before submission and they had 17 days to do that, they decided to do it in December. That’s patience taken to extremes.