Tonight Sevco accepted all outstanding penalties attributable to the SFA membership of soon-to-be-liquidated Rangers. They also agreed that if Rangers are found to have cheated for over a decade by illegally registering players that they will be subject to whatever penalties Rangers would be due, in order to acquire Rangers SFA membership.
Only a week ago Ally McCoist insisted he would not be party to such a deal, it remains to be seen if that they were empty words.
The Scottish Premier League will now continue with its inquiry into the alleged dual-contracts Rangers operated during the Sir David Murray era. I confidently predict the findings will reveal Rangers did not operate within the same rules as every other club, since at least the last century. The former club will be stripped of all league titles and cups. Celtic will be awarded league titles for 2003, 2005, 2009, 2010 and 2011, creating a new Scottish record of 12 consecutive league championship wins.
Sevco will be liable for any punishment due for these years of operating with shadow contracts, the likely severity of which will reflect the enormity of the offence.
Should the First Tier Tribunal find that Rangers evaded paying up to £75m of social taxes, which is explicitly against Fifa and SFA rules, the SFA disciplinary tribunal will punish Sevco, the successor club now due to inherit Rangers SFA membership.
If you are on the receiving end of this, the future will appear daunting. If you stood at Rugby Park, Fir Park, Celtic Park, St Mirren Park or Caledonian Stadium, when Celtic effectively or actually ‘lost’ league titles while observing the rules, the cumulative effects of punishments on a rival are meaningless, you will want trophies awarded to those who were prepared to endure defeat while observing the rules.
One day soon the world will know, you were not paranoid after all!
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CELTIC (4-4-2) Forster; Matthews, Lustig, Mulgrew, Izaguirre; Commons, Wanyama, Ledley, Samaras; Hooper, Stokes
Subs: Zaluska, Irvine, F, Twardzik, McGeouch, McCourt, Bangura
quonno on 28 July, 2012 at 12:30:
“Apart from a letter in the Herald sometime last week, not a word of criticism about McCoist has been seen or heard.”
Andrew Smith in Scotland on Sunday and Ewing Grahame in the Telegraph both ripped McCoist apart after his comments.
What’s the issue with Broonie?
Injured?
quonno on 28 July, 2012 at 12:33 said:
Agree with you entirely.
This decision will require a firm stance by the authorities – that’s my main concern, given their recent history. I expect this will run on for some time yet.
Ten men
I think Broonie Had an operation during break..
In Coias, big breakfast, birra moretti, then off 2 paradise….
Enjoy the game ghuys…..Nae hedges here.
“Plumber jailed for tax evasion as HMRC receipts rise
By Ian Cowie Your Money Last updated: July 27th, 2012
A plumber has been jailed for 12 months for tax evasion, demonstrating that despite the public backlash against Treasury minister David Gauke’s claim that paying plumbers in cash is “immoral”, HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) is deadly serious in its clampdown on the black economy.
Melvyn Careswell, 49, of Epsom, Surrey, set up a company, MPC Heating and Plumbing, but never registered his earnings with HMRC. Investigators discovered that over a five-year period he evaded around £50,000 of income tax. Confiscation proceedings are underway and, following Mr Gauke’s threats to ‘name and shame’ offenders, the taxmen have taken the unusual step of publishing a photograph of the imprisoned plumber online.
Chris Martin, assistant director of criminal investigations at HMRC, said: “Careswell stole from UK taxpayers by failing to pay tax due on his earnings and now he must face the consequences of his actions in jail. HMRC is clamping down on plumbers and those in other trades who attempt to commit tax evasion, and the sentence given to Careswell will act as a deterrent.”
He added that investigators are targeting plumbers, gas fitters and heating engineers who failed to take advantage of the opportunity offered during last year’s Plumbers Tax Safe Plan (PTSP), to put their tax affairs in order. Last August the taxmen warned that five plumbers had been arrested and 600 were under investigation. Those who voluntarily disclosed previously undeclared earnings have paid over £4m in outstanding tax.
Mike Wells, a director of risk and intelligence services at HMRC, said: “We want people targeted to come forward and use the opportunity to put the record straight and pay any tax due on the best possible terms. It really is better for people who owe tax to come to us, before we come and find you.”
New figures from HMRC show that tax receipts are rising faster than inflation. Richard Mannion, national tax director at Smith & Williamson, the accountancy and investment management group said: “Total receipts to HMRC for the 2011/12 tax year, represent an increase of 4.3pc compared to the year before, an increase from £447bn to £466bn.
“This increase is primarily due to a rise in the VAT rate from 17.5pc to 20pc from January 4, 2011. VAT now represents 21pc of total tax receipts, and brought in more than £98bn – almost as much as NICs at £101bn. The four taxes which generate by far the most money for the government are income tax, NICs, VAT and corporation tax.”
No wonder many people – including Cabinet Ministers – question whether there is anything wrong with paying tradesmen in cash. But, as the Careswell prison sentence demonstrates, the risks are high for those convicted of tax evasion.”
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/finance/ianmcowie/100019166/plumber-jailed-for-
tax-evasion-as-hmrc-receipts-rise/
RobertTressell on 28 July, 2012 at 10:01:
Chairbhoy on 28 July, 2012 at 10:44:
Green has no loyalty to the club – so agreeing to take the punishments that are coming to Ibrox is of no great consequence to him. He has taken a massive gamble – because he has absolutely no option. If he folds Sevco today, he makes little or nothing on his outlay and gets his hands burned. He is risking everything on people buying season tickets.
Sevco will be in administration within two months in my opinion. They do not have the finances to survive. Green will still get his hands burned, but only after trying to get something out of it. He has nothing to lose in the greater scheme of things.
The end result will still be the same – they are finished.
Who is this Rangers that BBC ALBA are advertising?
Ian Black signs for Sevco, will he get capped in the 3rd Division? Probably!
Well my new season ticket arrved today and I am delighted to be contributing to the rebirth of scottish football. All the non Celtic fans I know are furious with the huns and reading the comments from McCoist I am furious as well.
There is no way McCoist should be allowed to get away with his ourbursts. The fact that he can peddlie such nonesense openly shows how stupid he is but also reveals that, of course, our media are still lickspittlles. For McCoist to use words like dignity when they have not paid their bills and caused mayhem across Scotland is simply breathtaking – as is the notion that somehow they shouldnt be punished for it. His lies around being “thrown out” of the SPL are crass and simply wrong and he MUST be taken to task now.
We cannot start this new era with the huns believing they can still bully everyone. McCoisty must be punished and the SFA and SPL rebuke the club quickly and severly.
I hate them more and more with every passing moment.
The World will not know, the world will only believe the spin from the SFA, etc regarding ‘Rangers’
Steinreignedsupreme@13:00
Where is the money coming from to sign players like Black? He will be on circa £5-6k a week
Either a raft of players like the Bocanegra’s, Edu’s + Goain’s are getting sold very soon or Green is banking on signings like Black delivering a massive boost in season ticket sales
I agree with you. Admin looms before Halloween
Andy Cameron embarrassing himself big time,,,,keep it up ANDY LOL
HH
An HMRC spokesman stated- “Liquidation will enable a sale of the football assets to be made to a new company, thereby ensuring that football will continue at Ibrox”
It should be noted that HMRC has not publicly given RFC approval to continue at Ibrox or anywhere else.
The law restricts the re-use of name previously used by the company that has gone into liquidation (section 216 of The Insolvency Act 1986). The name which can’t be used is known as the “prohibited name”. A prohibited name is a name by which the liquidated company was known at any time in the 12 months immediately before liquidation: whether this is its registered name or any name so similar to its registered or trading name as to suggest an association with the liquidated company.
“The whole point is not to allow the football club to do anything other than exist. It’s just to change the name over the door if you will.” – Paul Clark
Any creditor of RFC is entitled raise issue with the name ‘over the door’ at Ibrox, as taxpayers we are all entitled to raise our concern.
Sleekit Ally moans: “They want what we and our fans bring, yet seem determined to strip us of every bit of our dignity. It has to stop.” – Baw faced cheek.
Keep the faith
HH
Inter TV says —–
Handanovic , Zanetti,
Pie and Bovril guy on Off the Ball talking a lot of sense. Andy Cameron – Dearie Me.
Andy Camerom pleading stupidity and ignorance in mitigation of Rangers cheating. Well he’s correct on two fronts.
I hope a nurse is on stand-by.
I’ll stick my neck out here and say that today’s team will not be the one that takes to the field on Wednesday night.
Inter TV says —–
Handanovic , Zanetti, Chivu, Rannochia, Silvestre, Guarin, Cambiasso, Sneijder, Coutinho , Milito.
Rannochia is a real thing Italian centre half — many have him tagged – ” The new Nesta ”
Coutinho — Brazillian attacking midfielder -a star of the future.
Som mes que un club on 28 July, 2012 at 12:38 said:
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If you’re in or near the old town there’s a load of Irish bars down near the harbour, they’ll be showing the game, further out the bhodran bar will have it on.
HH
Good afternoon from an extremely sparse Parkhead.
Cmon the Celtic!!!!!!
Celtic Football Club @celticfc
CELTIC: Forster; Matthews, Lustig, Mulgrew, Izaguirre; Commons, Wanyama, Ledley, Samaras; Hooper, Stokes
Celtic Football Club @celticfc
Subs: Zaluska, Irvine, F. Twardzik, McGeouch, McCourt, Bangura –
gazebo live via Marbella
Looks like Neil has fielded a side very close to Wednesdays team
Ten Men Won The League on 28 July, 2012 at 13:11:
“Where is the money coming from to sign players like Black? He will be on circa £5-6k a week
“Either a raft of players like the Bocanegra’s, Edu’s + Goain’s are getting sold very soon or Green is banking on signings like Black delivering a massive boost in season ticket sales”
The players will be on Third Division wages – plus bonuses. I reckon the biggest earners will be on between £1-2k-a-week. Even at those rates, they don’t have the money to continue unless there is a sudden rush for season tickets. That is what Green is gambling on like you say.
But there will be no transfer fees coming in for the others unless they sign over to Sevco. I’m not aware that any of those you named have actually done that.
Willie Collum is the ref.
Great eh?
One of my cable channels is Inter tv, stroke of luck, don’t have to rely on dodgy streams today. :)
Here we go again..Andy Cameron on Shoartbreed..’RFC were the most successful club in the world’..ok ok…so based on your way of thinking Andy, Linfield are second and Real Madrid and AC Milan are well down your list, even though they’ve won 16 big cups between them and been World club champions. Based on my way of thinking, CFC are above the Rnagers on that list..Big cup winners and robbed in a world club championship, not to mention 43 leagues against the odds in a pro-Rnagers system.
hh
Would be happy to see Lustig at centre back on Wednesday. At least he is an experienced international. Better option than the failed project that is Kelvin Wilson.
Marrakesh Express on 28 July, 2012 at 13:32 said:
:)
HH
Interesting tem selection
No natural CB to partner CM …..shows our lack of options there
A touch lightweight in midfield ..4-4-2 ….not for me …Inter do do friendlies so hopefully we’ll get a decent run out
Beamishismypint
Re Lustig..don’t big the guy up too much :-))
Saying more Scottish titles is greater than a European cup is like saaying that beating your brother at darts every day is better that beating Phil Taylor in a major final. Their delusion goes on!!!
PFayr
Thought he was OK at Euros and Wilson is pish (only bigging him up im relative terms).
HH
The funniest thing about Moisty continuing to blame CW for the only crimes related to RFC (deid) – hilarious though that is in itself, the truth is, if Moisty hadn’t been so shockingly bad as a manager, RFC could well be still up and running, instead of deid as a dodo.
New green brigade being formed.
Very unlucky Charlie