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asking for a penalty amount of 65 of the amount of tax underpaid excluding interest this too required a new ftt case to confirm as hmrc had agreed to a rangers request back in 2010 to separate the tribunals for underpayment and penalty bdo correctly pointed out that the penalty amounts had not been confirmed by any legal process hmrc would have to relitigate the whole issue again if they wanted to score a point on rangers fraudulent conduct however with no prospect of yielding a worthwhile increase in payment for their efforts hmrc agreed to drop the claim for penalties this was all simply a cost benefit expediency there was nothing behind the decisions to drop the claims for net of tax payments or the penalties that indicated that hmrc was admitting to any error yet that is how this event has been masterfully spun by the usual ibrox lackeys in the press if rfc 2012 plc had survived and was a going concern with assets and revenues to be claimed hmrc would not have given up the claim on the penalties possibly not on the gross v net either but it is quite likely they would have lost this point bdo list the revised hmrc tax claim as being 68 3m now there was not and is not a chance in hell that rangers could have found the funds to avoid administration this sensational story is creating a false narrative from nothing old original rangers is not coming out of liquidation the story of rangers descent into collapse is characterised by fans amassing around polar extremes there is little rational discussion almost to a man rangers fans have shown no interest in learning what was being done in their name if a celtic supporter said it it must be disputed and scorned similarly most celtic fans have enjoyed this adventure for the many months and years of unrivalled entertainment in many corners of the scottish football interwebs there is little concern for accuracy in any story therefore i write this blog mainly for the record the facts as currently stated by bdo are here if you want them i doubt reality will cause many who follow the tribulations of the ibrox clubs to sway their view much at all there are flame wars to fight in the press there are agendas to push and newspapers to sell to the real story why now bdo have been discussing the debate with hmrc on the two points of contention for over a year it has been over five months since bdo revealed that hmrc had capitulated and couldn t be bothered chasing these issues any longer so why would the ibrox pr machine suddenly fire up this story now it all looks like a well planned well executed distortion of the truth this far after the events it seems unlikely that the sevco pr machine would waste such capital without a compelling reason with going concern warnings cash requirements gaps for the coming year a lawsuit lost over retail and one more in the works for an ibrox disaster memorial plan abandoned plus massive dilution of supporters share investments there are a lot of issues that could be about to erupt for the seven year old club whatever is going on the taxman killed my club by mistake narrative has to be a distraction from something time will tell us what it is exactly but with so many loyal and true bluenoses working in the press this could simply be an in house hack trying to clear the name of his now departed club filed under general ftt transcript for andrew dickson 08 09 2017 it was more than just tax that was being evaded as the man who administered rangers infamous ebt scheme was on the ropes while hmrc s brief tried to hit him hard it is easy to make seemingly outlandish claims about the years of wrong doing by rangers management while sitting on a stack of documentation after all this time and so many official claims of blissful ignorance it is only fair to let you see for yourself there are legal and tactical reasons for not just dumping everything for public consumption however ex rangers administrator and current trfc ltd director andrew dickson s appearance before the first tier tribunal tax on 18 april 2011 provides an opportunity for anyone with an interest in this story to get a cross sectional view of the rot that rampaged through one of scotland s biggest football clubs in the first decade of this millennium the document attached below is a verbatim copy without editing or alteration of the official transcript of mr dickson s submission and cross examination that day it provides a quite detailed description of the how the trust scheme was supposed to work in theory it lays bare the manner in which the sloppy implementation of the scheme by mr dickson and his colleagues created gaping holes even in their we think you are all stupid strategy just some of the evidence of deliberate concealment is in open view it is interesting to see mr dickson try to duck questions around player registration and the requirement to declare of all payments related to playing football in defiance of logic mr dickson just sticks doggedly to his presumably coached lines of we didn t think we had to had he endlessly answered because we are the people for a whole day under oath it would have made as much sense it is quite a long read but worth the effort for anyone who wants to understand how the ailing mammoth that was rangers ended up dying in a tar pit of its own creation it seems incredible to me that anyone aware of the facts would deem mr dickson fit and proper for any current role in scottish football let alone allow him to sit on sfa and spfl committees mr dickson s submission starts at the foot of the second page of the file 11 mur180411 copy i have no copyright on this document i note the document contains no claim of copyright this document is provided here under reporting of current events provisions of fair dealing citing your source would be polite if you want to reference this content in any of your own reporting filed under general a history of unusual payments at ibrox 21 08 2017 this blog spent its first phase in 2011 and 2012 trying to draw attention to payments made to footballers by rangers fc all of those payments wee tax case and big tax case have now been established to have involved the deliberate non payment of taxes and lying to hmrc the scottish football authorities about the existence of side contracts detailing those payments however these were not the only irregular looking payments made by rangers through the murray group management remuneration trust mgmrt if you will indulge me and follow along closely you will see that a clear pattern of behaviour emerges this is yet another case where the devil is in the details so forgive me for a long and very detailed post but i hope it will be worth your time the following table shows the first five mgmrt sub trust recipients the number of their sub trust and the date the sub trust was first used i have chosen to obscure the name of the recipient of trust number 3 as he has no relevance to the rangers story the sharp eyed amongst you will notice something odd in the dates of first use for messrs souness and smith at the first tier tribunal ftt in 2010 2012 the process of creating sub trusts and allocating numbers was described in quite some depth as an example the following is an extract from murray group s ian macmillan s cross examination on 26th october 2010 this establishes the point that sub trust numbers were allocated in time sequenced order one after the other as needed indeed of the 111 sub trusts created for the mgmrt all of the other 109 sub trusts follow this format i e the order of sub trust numbers lines up with the order of creation and first use i e sub trust 5 was created before sub trust 6 and so on the only sub trusts that do not appear to follow this pattern were those created for souness and smith are you still with me hold on we are about to get to the point a pen and paper to track the timeline might be useful why does mr souness have sub trust number 2 when his loan request was made on 13th june 2001 which is after the first use of sub trust number 3 on 31st may 2001 mr souness has said this payment was for scouting work performed for rangers of course this was an odd response given that he was the manager of blackburn rovers at the time some cynics have suggested that the transfer of tugay kerimoğlu from rangers to mr souness blackburn rovers on 17th of may 2001 might be a related factor a decision to open a sub trust for mr souness on or around the 17th of may 2001 would explain why he would be allocated sub trust number 2 of course there may be other explanations whatever the truth behind this payment to souness i think we can all agree that it is highly unusual for one club to make payments to a long since ex employee who was working for another football club at the time walter smith s sub trust number 4 is even more perplexing funding of this trust took place in september 2002 based on a loan request letter submitted in early august 2002 this is unusual because we would expect naturally that sub trust number 4 would be opened after sub trust number 3 and before sub trust number 5 therefore we would expect that the decision to open mr smith s sub trust number 4 would have taken place between 31st may and the 5th of november 2001 this apparent delay in funding the sub trust for mr smith after having a number allocated is highly unusual in the context of the timeliness for the other rangers sub trusts those cynics might again wonder aloud if there was a connection between michael ball s transfer from everton to rangers on 2nd august 2001 or walter smith s termination as manager of everton on 13th march 2002 a decision to open sub trust number 4 for walter smith on or around 2nd august 2001 for ball s transfer would certainly fit the numbering of the sub trusts perfectly if this was the case we would have a second case of rangers making a payment to a long since former employee who was then the manager of a different club as background colour we might want to recall that in august 2001 michael ball was a rising star who had just received his first england cap that his career did not take off at ibrox was not something anyone would have anticipated in 2001 should we start to think once was a mistake twice is just careless was funding delayed to wait until smith was no longer the manager of another club of course there may be many other explanations for this sequence of events this blog post makes no accusations it merely posits questions against data that comes from the scottish courts and tribunals service for the record i am not aware of anyone asking mr smith about his ebt as mentioned above tribunal documentation indicates that a loan request was made in walter smith s name in august 2002 for 80 000 and the sub trust was funded with this amount by rangers on 24th september 2002 at the ftt smith s sub trust was reported just like any other with no mention made of him not being paid the submission excerpt above was originally interpreted by me as implying smith did not withdraw the money but i have received other information along the years that indicates that he did i do not know for certain that he did someone should ask him i will be pleased to provide any updates or corrections to this posting if mr smith would like to provide more information however it is not really important whether walter smith transferred this money or not it is far more important that the many questions surrounding why rangers were making payments to ex employees get answered could someone ask the sfa s andrew dickson who administered rangers payments to sub trusts to explain the many questions raised by the timeline of these events after all mr dickson received an email from ian macmillan on 16th july 2002 asking him to look into why smith had not had not been paid the agreed 80 000 by then see excerpt from ftt submission below this reads like the agreement to pay walter smith this was made much earlier than 16 july 2002 obviously mr smith will know what happened but it is especially important that a man still involved in the administration of scottish football for the sfa should explain what did he know about the smith payment and what did he do with that information mr dickson did you ask anyone at rangers or the murray group why the club was making payments to coach es of other club s if not why not you were certainly aware that such payments had been made when we add these events to the wee tax case the big tax case lying for years about the existence of side letters shredding of evidence of a contractual obligation bilking everton out of at least part of the transfer fee for the re sale of michael ball lying about the date of crystallisation of the wee tax case bill there is a pattern that emerges there are prima facie fraud cases awaiting at least some of these events it is blindingly obvious yet neither the scottish football association nor the scottish professional football league appear to have any appetite for investigating let alone addressing what was very clearly a major problem in the scottish game many of the people who have serious questions to answer about this pattern are still in positions of authority within the scottish game what else did the men who ruined rangers get up to there can be no sense that scottish football is fairly or competently administered while this pattern of unusual activity over many years goes uninvestigated filed under general the never ending story 30 11 2015 the news bdo will seek leave to appeal the big tax case or the so called big tax case as many like to call it means this saga may yet have some twists and turns to it like many i yearn for the end of this process but bdo do need to be seen to have exhausted all avenues to show an even handed approach to the interests of all creditors therefore news that they will seek leave to appeal is understandable however there are still many people who seem confused by what this was about myths have developed confusion reigns over whether rangers conduct of the relevant tax cases is currently considered legal or illegal was it was tax avoidance or tax evasion and so on most significantly the campaign to have the farcical nimmo smith commission findings set aside must be put on ice however the context of the tax cases and what effect they had on the demise of rangers can and should be discussed to really understand this tale and its impact on rangers fc we need to take another look at the side letter issue for it was the decision to use and then hide these documents that lit the match that lead to rangers self immolation between 1999 2003 faced with a resurgent and share issue funded celtic rangers started seeking an edge by lowering the taxes it had to pay on players wages this began with the operation of a discounted options scheme for players in essence this was a money box operation and rangers began what would become a pattern of lying forgetfulness delete as you think applicable towards hmrc and violat...