They need to wake up and smell the coffee. HRMC have been aggressive against football clubs for some time and rightly so. To blame the HRMC for not telling them what is due is plain stupid.
I sympathise with Truro if they've been chasing HMRC for info.
I got a letter from HMRC at the beginning of the year saying I owed them £73. Not a lot of money I admit but when I worked it out I calculated that they actualy owed me £302.72.
I wrote to them, as I seem to have to do every year and yesterday received a cheque for the exact amount of £302.72. If I can work it out then why can't they? They're a useless bunch of pen pushers and their computer system is crap.
I did 13 years in the Civil Service back in the 60's and would have been rightly sacked for a mistake like that.
There used to be a time when you could trust government departments implicitly to do things properly. Nowadays you have to check every fine detail.
The excuse that the Club were only recently told what they owed is a poor one when allegedly they haven't paid their tax for two years. There was nothing to stop them making payments against known arrears even if the exact amount of the arrears is not known. They presumably have an accountant and as Alan has said he can work out his tax to the penny so why can't the accountant. I suggest that the most likely scenario is that it would appear they, as have others before them, regarded the HMRC debt as a 'soft' debt for too long.
Lets hope that they manage to come to an arrangement with HMRC via the Court if necessary, find the necessary money, learn from the experience and survive as a club.
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