The campaign to raise awareness for the issues involved in Resolution 12 will be given a boost with an advert appearing in The Guardian.
A group of highly determined Celtic shareholders have been driving the issue since it was raised at the 2013 Annual General Meeting.
The resolution requested that the Celtic board question the decision of the SFA to grant Rangers (IL) a licence to play in Europe for the 2011/12 season when the club had an overdue tax payable with Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs.
Those regulations are put in place in an attempt to ensure some sort of level playing field where all clubs at least pay their social taxes.
With HMRC delivering a demand for £2.8m plus interest and charges on 20 May 2011 the bill became overdue on 20 June 2011. Rangers (IL) were licenced on 30 June 2011 to play in the Champions League qualifiers for the 11/12 season giving Ally McCoist’s side the chance of a £15m Champions League jackpot.
In summary Celtic were punished for paying HMRC and finishing second in the SPL.
A funding campaign has now been launched to pay for an advert in The Guardian with plans also in place for a similar advert in Swiss based newspaper Neue Lurcher Zeitung- taking the issue to heart of UEFA.
Donations to pay for the advert are being taken on the Celtic Quick News bookstore website.
Explaining the move WINNING CAPTAINS on CQN posted: “We now have an agreement with The Guardian and are awaiting confirmation from the Swiss newspaper Neue Lurcher Zeitung.
“We will publish a Statement in The Guardian on a Wednesday, with the target being Wednesday 25th May – that date might ring a bell or two!
“The Statement will also appear in NLZ newspaper on the same date if all goes to plan. Â The content for the Statement will be supplied by the Res 12 guys.
“This will be paid for by crowd funding as was the case for the Statement in the Sunday Herald. We will ask someone like Celticrollercoaster to audit the funds received and payments made – any surplus to the CQN Malawi schools project.
“We have added a NEWSPAPER STATEMENT option to http://www.cqnbookstore.com
“You can contribute a minimum of £10 and you can up the quantity option to increase how much you want to put into this project. We only have one week to raise the required sums.
“Any books bought on the Bookstore over the next week will see CQN put £5 into this fund. Every little helps.”
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