West Ham and Newcastle Raided in tax investigation....

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  • IronHerbIronHerb
    Yeah, the Club was obviously in the wrong.
  • chicagohammerchicagohammer
    The interesting comment to me in our response was that the 1m loyalty bonus appears to have been an annual payment clause which was laid out within his contract.

    Sounds to me that there is even less for the powers at be to get their knickers in a twist about.

    The story appears to be false and sensationalized (Purely because there was a genuine controversy over his leaving).

    There may well be a very good reason why the HMRC "raided our offices and took away documents and computers, but this payment would clearly not have been it.

    IMO the paper should retract the story
  • PrestonHammerPrestonHammer
    Didn't Man Utd have to pay Chelsea an outrageous fee for Mourinho's image rights? How about HMRC investigate that?
  • MarkNobleLocalHeroMarkNobleLocalHero
    edited May 2017
    Thorn, You say
    In all the cases I don't think it's the clubs being investigated but the players and/or their agents.
    I don't think it works like that. If a builder offers to do a job for someone at lower price if he pays with cash then both the builder and the person paying him are involved in tax avoidance.
  • PrestonHammerPrestonHammer
    In Payet's case, the loyalty bonus was in his contract, which was submitted to the Premier League and the F.A.
  • MrsGreyMrsGrey
    Not been much heard since, but I just saw this in respect of Newcastle.

    http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-tyne-40372393

    They (Newcastle) challenged whether or not the search warrants were legal. The (preliminary) judge has just ruled that there needs to be a full hearing of the case. Meanwhile, the material seized under the original warrants is sequestered.
  • MrsGreyMrsGrey
    PrestonHammer said:

    Didn't Man Utd have to pay Chelsea an outrageous fee for Mourinho's image rights? How about HMRC investigate that?


    In a statement released on Tuesday, a prosecutor in Madrid said the Portuguese manager had committed two counts of tax fraud in 2011 and 2012, saying that “corporate structures were used by the accused in order to conceal revenues generated from his image rights”.

    https://www.theguardian.com/football/2017/jun/20/jose-mourinho-manchester-united-accused-tax-fraud
  • MrsGreyMrsGrey
    MrsGrey said:

    Not been much heard since, but I just saw this in respect of Newcastle.

    http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-tyne-40372393

    They (Newcastle) challenged whether or not the search warrants were legal. The (preliminary) judge has just ruled that there needs to be a full hearing of the case. Meanwhile, the material seized under the original warrants is sequestered.

    They are back in Court, hearing evidence on this issue. http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-tyne-40740458
  • MunichHammerMunichHammer
    Should we be worried considering it only seems to be Newcastle fighting against this?
  • MrsGreyMrsGrey
    I was never worried ;biggrin
  • MrsGreyMrsGrey
    High Court has said that the warrants were legal, and so HMRC are now going through the documents, computers etc. Coverage so far all focusses on Newcastle. One of the transfers being investigated is the signing of Demba Ba from West Ham (but the 'dodgy' bit seems to be how Newcastle paid Ba's agents) which perhaps explains why West Ham was raided.

    http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-news/newcastle-united-systematically-abused-tax-13718861
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