Rangers FC v BBC (Scotland)

Man lese und staune ...

Zitat

February's CV required a 75% approval from unsecured creditors, but HMRC accounted for £21.5m of the £55m total debt.

Sagt die BBC in ihrem Kommentar zu Charles Green's statement. Einem Kommentar, der wiederum darauf aus ist, Green's Angaben zu diskreditieren.

Fakt ist: Wir hatten nie 134m, wie es die BBC stets und immer wieder in die Welt posaunte und gerne mal das "could/potentially/possible" vergaß. Fakt ist, daß wenn das Tribunal sich vor der CVA/Gläubigervereinbarung geäußert hätte, der Anteil des HMRC wohl weniger als dr von Ticketus gewesen wäre und somit sie keine Mehrheit bekommen hätten. Fakt ist, daß dann der Verein das CVA bekommen hätte, heute noch in der SPL wäre, zig-Millionen an SPL-Geldern bekommen und Dutzende Spieler behalten hätte, vielleicht in der CL stände etc. pp..

Aber so ist es nicht gekommen, dank HMRC. BDO (die Liquidatoren der Oldco) werden das hoffentlich gut auseinanderpflücken (und daran verdienen). Und die SPL/SFA hat sich als ein verlogener Haufen aus Celtic-hörigen Idioten und teils raffgierigen Managern entblößt. Mögen sie langsam dahinsiechen ...

Und die Lügen gehen weiter, egal was die Behörden und selbst Richter dazu sagen. Ungestraft lügen sie weiter ...

Zitat

HMRC to appeal against ruling in Rangers 'Big Tax Case'

HM Revenue and Customs has said it will seek permission to appeal against a tax tribunal ruling in favour of Rangers' use of Employee Benefit Trusts.

The club, which is now in liquidation, used the scheme from 2001 to 2010 to make £47.65m in payments to players and staff in the form of tax-free loans.

HMRC had challenged the payments, arguing that they were illegal.

Rangers disputed the bill and a First Tier Tax Tribunal (FTT) ruled the scheme did not breach tax law.

In a majority decision, the tribunal said the payments - of about £49m - were loans, not earnings, and so were not liable for income tax.

The old Rangers was under the control of Sir David Murray when it began using EBTs.

He sold the club for £1 to Scottish businessman Craig Whyte in 2011, while the tax liability was in dispute.

The FTT, before three judges, concluded in January, one month before the old Rangers, now under the control of Mr Whyte, was forced into administration by HMRC over non-payment of tax totalling about £14m.

HMRC subsequently rejected proposals for a creditors agreement that would have allowed the old club to continue.

Administrators Duff and Phelps then negotiated a sale of assets to a consortium led by Charles Green for £5.5m.

He has since formed a new club, now playing in the Scottish Football League Third Division.

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Da schwankt die Qualität mitunter beträchtlich, gerade in letzter Zeit. Für gewöhnlich bietet die BBC (gerade die Wissenschaftsabteilung) aber fundiertes Material. Wenn man dazu im Vergleich sieht, was Discovery und der History Channel einem manchmal als Geschichtsdoku verkaufen wollen ... aber wie gesagt, das ist z.T. sehr unterschiedlich und liegt vor allem an denen, die es machen und welche Zielstellung angesetzt wurde.

Geoff Randall is a long-term Rangers supporter and is one of the few at the top of the media who have genuine sympathy with our club. He was allegedly told very strongly by BBC management not to wear his union jack cufflinks on news items when he was the Business Coirrespondent and when he refused it was made clear to him that he had no future with the organisation. He seems to be doing much better at SKY these days.

Sein Interview mit Charles Green für Sky

Übrigens ...

BROADCASTING

An Agreement Between Her Majesty’s Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport and the British Broadcasting Corporation

REGULATORY OBLIGATIONS ON THE UK PUBLIC SERVICES

44. Accuracy and impartiality

(1) The BBC must do all it can to ensure that controversial subjects are treated with due
accuracy and impartiality in all relevant output.
(2) In applying paragraph (1), a series of programmes may be considered as a whole.
(3) The UK Public Services must not contain any output which expresses the opinion of the
BBC or of its Trust or Executive Board on current affairs

Das gilt wohl nicht für BBC Scotland.