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The unfortunate shredding of documents

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The report on Rangers on tonight’s Channel 4 News by Alex Thomson put meat on the bones of what has been going on at Rangers over the last decade or more.  Former chief executive, Martin Bain, was revealed to have written to then-chairman, John McClelland, in late 2003 asking that his pay rise is paid through the club’s Employee Benefit Trust, which is not subject to Income Tax or National Insurance.

Bain goes on to make a sinister note to McClelland, “at the end of the meeting I gave her back the letter addressed to me from you that stated my contractual increase for her to shred.”

Shredding documents?  Oh dear.

Bain declined to answer questions from Channel 4 but yesterday offered to drop his contractual claim against the club, suggesting his issue was with Rangers new owner, Craig Whyte.  It was the most self-serving drivel I have read in a while.

If this was how he behaved as Rangers chief executive Whyte was right to suspend him last year.  How Bain had the front to pursue Rangers for over £1m knowing the consequences of his letters to John McClelland beggars belief.

I wonder how HMRC view instructions to shred documents that could inform a view on a tax claim?  These documents prove Rangers directors knew how EBTs worked, understood what they were doing and the consequences.

Paul Baxendale-Walker walked straight out of a Carry On movie to give a great cameo performance. In a couple of years some poor casting director is going to have to try to find actors to play Baxendale-Walker, Whyte, Bain, Paul Murray and Zsa Zsa himself. Could any actors do justice to these bizarre individuals?

I’d be interested in your suggestions. Zsa Zsa for Sir David is a given.

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  8. hamiltontim on

    zimmerman

     

     

    Isn’t the essence of religion all about love, respect and understanding?

     

     

    That’s what I take from it anyway.

  14. hamiltontim on

    MWD

     

     

    Ya pedantic ole sod :-)

     

     

    BTW if you have your nieces number give her a wee text to say well done for participating in ‘Soak the Teacher’ today. We raised £255.65 for SCIAF :-)

  18. zimmerman on

    Moonbeams,

     

    can’t argue with the thought,although religion seems to get in the way most of the time and a lot of good people suffer.

  35. Haudoanaminit on

    To all you huns looking in, remember, these are people already being paid obscene amounts of money and not satisfied with that, they want to have even more lolly at the tax payers (ie yours) expense. Meanwhile you (and every other lowly paid average worker) have to pay your full amount of tax and stuggle to get by. You, and every other ‘average worker’ in the UK have been getting ripped off and you are supplementing it all through purchase of season tickets, merchandise etc… and worst of all, you worship the very ground they walk on.

     

     

    Now I ask you one simple question, if this had been Celtic doing this, what would you be saying….?

  36. Estadio Nacional on

    Thanks for the summary, didnt see the C4 show so appreciate it.

     

     

    Im still sure yees are making all these rfc stories up to fool folk with no access to Scottish media, they cant be true….

  40. Estadio Nacional on

    Toronto 1 Santos Laguna 1

     

     

    On Al Jaseera, OSN channel 521, 51 minutes played.

     

     

    Twitter’s Marc Crosas playing. Santos Laguna fans on SLQN are already saying they would be like Barcelona if Marc Crosas was playing..

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