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For puzzled readers all of this refers to a different tax bill from the EBT case.

 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/14482034.stm

 

Sheriff Officers have visited Ibrox as Rangers’ tax dispute with Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs continues.

 

The officers served papers as part of the process of payment.

 

Rangers face a bill of £2.8m which they are willing to pay but the club dispute a fine that comes with it of about £1.4m.

 

Discussions are ongoing and Rangers are so far refusing to comment. Rangers confirmed they were being investigated over a tax issue in April 2010.

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So how come a UEFA licence was issued? The tax related to periods before 31st December, the bill was unpaid at 31st March. Why were the rules not applied?

 

RTC said in April

 

†If Johnston is claiming that no one at Rangers FC knew about this bill, he is either ignorant of the facts or is deliberately misleading his shareholders. It is possible that Johnston and other board members did not know about this bill, but my research reveals that staff at Rangers FC have been aware of this issue for at least two years .

 

Contrary to speculation, this issue was not discovered during Craig Whyte’s (or anyone else’s) due diligence . Back-office staff at Rangers have been corresponding with HMRC on the matter for all of this time, and cannot claim that this was any kind of surprise. After many months of discussion and correspondence, HMRC finally sent an assessment in recent weeks. â€

 

http://rangerstaxcase.com/2011/04/06/rangers-the-other-tax-cases/

 

The timing of RTC’s blog was 6th April so if assessment was sent in recent weeks it arrived before AJ signed off the accounts on 1st April, hence its inclusion as a charge. When the SFA granted the licence they could not have been unaware of the issue, so did they enquire and what were they told?

 

Does what has happened since stack up with what Rangers might have told the SFA?

 

They appear to have been stalling and stalling on paying the bill and after it arrived they have tried to stall again. Regardless the bill appears to qualify as a payable Overdue and so become a reason to refuse a licence application (unless the conditions in the rules about agreements with HMRC and appeals were met and the appearance of SOs suggest they were not).

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3e5NGbqhSQ&feature=player_embedded

 

Try this link then Frankie. Bet you believe the spin comming out of Ibroke. Hillarious!!! What happend to the £15m warchest?

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Just for you Frankie.

 

Phil Mac Giolla Bhain fights back

 

 

We do really live in a cesspit bigoted little backwater country.

 

Freedom of speech? not if you talk ill of Rangers apparently.

 

Everyone and their granny get behind Phil and show this country that we will not be silenced.

 

We will no longer be treated as second class citizens.

 

Rangers FC are apparently losing their fight against the tax man. Good.

 

From Scotzine

 

http://www.scotzine.com/2011/09/a-failed-attempt-to-censor-an-investigative-journalist/

 

A Failed Attempt To Censor An Investigative Journalist

 

The American writer Marshall Lumsden said: ‘At no time is freedom of speech more precious than when a man hits his thumb with a hammer.’

 

Well today someone hit my thumb with a hammer when they persuaded my web hosting company to suspend my account and close down my site.

 

If I say the air turned blue you will fully understand my thinking when you discover the people demanding the site be closed were Rangers ‘stakeholders.’

 

According to the system administrator at the hosting company one Archie Ferguson MCMI, MIET, MBA who claimed to be the representative of a stakeholders group.

 

We can forgive the member of staff in the hosting company in Australia, perhaps, believed that he represented Rangers FC threatened legal action against me and the company.

 

According to Archie, I Phil Mac Giolla Bhain, had “harmed the commercial standing and good trading name of this company†namely Glasgow Rangers FC PLC.

 

Archie and ‘his legal team’ are considering legal action against the company.

 

According to Archie I had “has shed doubt on the company’s inability to run its financial affairs and implied that there was some impropriety on the part of the company with regard to its tax affairs.â€

 

According to Archie I had written a “litany of…misguided suppositions.â€

 

How did the meeting with the HMRC team at Ibrox go today? Final score Rangers 0 HMRC 1.

 

I have another question for Archie Ferguson MCMI, MIET, MBA.

 

Who was the source of the story about the nine million pound “mystery bid†for Nikica Jelavi??

 

Everyone in the Scottish press knows his identity, but will you read about it tomorrow?

 

Probably not so why wait? It was Gordon Smith.

 

You are stakeholder so you will be able to ask your club’s Director of Football.

 

Tonight on BBC Radio Scotland Chick Young was sombre and dignified about the perilous financial situation at Rangers. Your club is staring into the abyss.

 

Chin up now Archie.

 

Dunkirk spirit and all that…

 

Written by Phil Mac Giolla Bhain

 

A Freelance Journalist based in Donegal, Ireland, Phil has broken some of the most high-profile exclusive stories in recent times regarding Scottish Football. From the Hugh Dallas email scandal to the Rangers tax issue, the Neil Lennon letter bomb attacks not to mention tackling the racist Famine Song. Phil has written for the likes of Caledonian Mercury, Irish Independent, Guardian and The Irish Times.

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http://news.stv.tv/scotland/west-central/269561-rangers-agree-to-pay-35000-legal-bill-after-being-taken-to-court/

 

An STV reporter has claimed that Rangers have withdrawn cooperation from the Herald group of newspapers, including The Herald, Sunday Herald and Evening Times, following their reporting of the club’s recent delinquent debtor status with law firm Levy & McRae. As well as being an advisor to Rangers, Levy & McRae also work for a number of media firms in Scotland, including, I understand, The Herald.

 

The Herald broke the story of Levy & McRae’s actions on the front page of Tuesday’s edition, some days after court proceedings, which are a matter of public record, were issued. Rangers have not publicly disputed any of the facts reported, however, they are sure to be unhappy the matter was reported in the first place.

 

Under their new owner Rangers have already managed to secure an apology from the BBC and appear to have rolled-over the Daily Record, who speculated the club may have some choppy financial waters ahead. It remains to be seen how long this strategy remains successful. Not very long, is my estimate. The days when Rangers could control the news are almost gone.

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Why if celtic fans are not religious bigots do they insist on having a version of the irish flag that has a yellow bar and not an orange one like the real flag?

the original flag was supposed to portray peace between orange and green.

Of the original irish republican movement quite a lot of them were protestants

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Why if celtic fans are not religious bigots do they insist on having a version of the irish flag that has a yellow bar and not an orange one like the real flag?

:roll:

 

OMG! I've just checked and my little tricolour has ORANGE on it.

 

I better bin it and get the proper, bigotted version or people will start thinking I'm only interested in the football.

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