They are up in the courts today against the HMRC (10:30am). I havent heard a lot about what they have done or plan to do to pay off the HMRC, you would think if they go in with a fair bit of cash and a business plan to reduce outgoings to show they can meet a payment plan, that they will be ok today.
Hopefully their people asked ours a few questions last week so they got a few pointers and tips on how to get past the day and continue as a club.
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Does seen strange that our fight for survival from HMRC was all over the place, but theirs seems to have been a little quieter. I hope they arent assuming a positive, lenient view from HMRC, seems to me they have a no nonsense approach recently.
Anyhow, good luck ... we dont want to lose 6 points !!
Theres a fan of another club saying it would be good if truro went bust as they would benefit.... Fans of same club said same about us last year, different people aswell. Not very nice really.
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... HMRC, seems to me they have a no nonsense approach recently...
Whilst in no way defending the non payment of taxes it does seem that when dealing with the HMRC approach would seem to depend on whether it is tax avoidance or plain old non payment.
The public accounts committee recently drew attention to numerous potential conflicts of interests and lunch/dinner meetings between the HMRC officials and corporate advisers to agree deals. Many of these meetings were not minuted, and where the minutes existed they were often not available. In the face of persistent questions from the committee, HMRC officials often sought refuge in confidentiality. The committee concluded that "there is a question about whether HMRC acted within the law and within its protocols".
The 2 'secret' but now well publicised sweetheart deals being Vodaphone where they set aside 2.2bn to meet their tax liability and ended up paying 1.25bn and Goldman Sachs who were let off interest charges amounting to between £8m and £20m.
Compare and contrast with the hard nosed attitude taken with non league football clubs owing sums dwarfed by that which multi-national companies have been let off in deals HMRC would rather had been kept secret.
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I can see why though. With all respect to our wonderful football club, if we were to go under, I can't imagine the dent in the country's economy would be as big if one of those 2 companies did.
Heard on talksport today, Darlington fan group have raised enough money for next 3 games, and want to take the club down the Community Club route, also Northwich Victoria have been issued notice to leave there ground.
