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Razam

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http://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/f...hould-be-relegated-two-divisions-8649017.html
'Football clubs who refuse to pay tax owed should be relegated two divisions'

MPs today called on the Government to “name and shame” 10 professional football clubs in England who owe the Treasury what could be millions of pounds in taxes. One member of the influential Commons Treasury committee even called for clubs who fail to pay up to be relegated two divisions in the football league.

Officials would not reveal which teams were being chased or say exactly how much they owed, but they did confirm to the Evening Standard that all the clubs were in arrears with PAYE. The amount owed will likely run into millions, as clubs in England were liable for £780 million in PAYE last year. John Mann, the Labour MP for Bassetlaw who sits on the committee and uncovered the debts, said: “They should be forced to pay up and if they refuse they should be threatened with dropping down two divisions. Everyone else is expected to pay taxes so why shouldn’t football clubs? The Government should name and shame them. It also gives these teams an unfair advantage over other clubs who do the right thing and pay their taxes.”

A spokesman for HM Revenue and Customs said: “Paying the right tax on time should be at the centre of a football club’s business strategy just as it should be for any other enterprise.” The football clubs now become the latest organisations to get caught in the furore over taxes.

Executives from Google, Amazon and Starbucks have been grilled by the Commons public accounts committee over their tax arrangements, and Labour has been accused of helping a wealthy supporter to avoid tax on a £1.65 million donation.

No more bank of HMRC for Southend if this goes through!
 
Technically we don't refuse to pay tax, we just can't afford to.
 
This clearly demonstrates that we are far from alone in struggling to meet our tax liabilities.

Why though the need to name and shame? HMRC have developed a simple strategy when we are late paying, present a winding up order.

How unlike HMRC to adopt a two tier approach when dealing with big clubs/companies versus smaller clubs!!
 
This makes no sense... Name and shame is exactly what winding up orders do... If this is such a big issue as the millions they are stating is owed, surely they would all be receiving winding up orders and this would now be public knowledge... :dim:

Winding up orders doesn't "name and shame" them/us so to speak, it only appears on the court website that we are due in court because HMRC have issued a winding up petition and it is then down to whoever finds it that brings it to the masses.

The news usually gets filtered like this, on the court website, posted on here, the Echo write about it and then it goes onto another news outlet (BBC etc.). HMRC don't release a press release saying "Southend are going to court again!".

As for the "millions" owed, it doesn't even say how much and just says a vague "could be in millions of pounds in taxes".
 
The article is clearly aimed at Prem and Championship clubs... there would be no power to relegate a league 2 club two divisions.
 
The horse has bolted on this. Five or ten years ago he would have had a point.
 
Another problem is that the Football League rules say that football creditors should be paid first, pushing HMRC and other creditors down the pecking order.

If this rule did come into play, then some clubs may have to decide which rule to break ....
 
imo just trying to divert the attention away from the multi-million pound organizations, vodafone etc
 
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