Hearts have been served with a liquidation notice by HM Revenue and Customs.
A notice was published in The Scotsman today spelling out the severity of the problem facing the Edinburgh side that Celtic face tomorrow night.
Hearts have had a number of tax problems in recent years and also fell foul of the SPL over unpaid wages.
Vladimir Romanov put the club up for sale towards the end of last year but has had no interest with the club reportedly valued at £50m by the Lithuanian.
Today’s development is another worry for fans of the club with HMRC no longer prepared to allow football clubs to act differently from other businesses.
Hearts are well used to dealing with these matters with a club statement indicating that the latest bill will be settled.
It read: “The club is aware of the notice placed in a newspaper relating to an earlier petition presented to the Court of Session.
“We are confident, however, that the relevant matter involving HMRC will be resolved in the very near future and no action as specified in the public notice will be necessary.”
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Wish Hector would pursue the full fat huns with such vigour!
Think HMRC are playing a blinder with the full fat Huns. Let them dangle on the end of a stick for a while, it lets Whyte spend everyone else’s money first. The story that keeps on giving.
They could tap Harry’s dug!!
This made me laugh out loud at my office!!
Brilliant!
just a thought would it be great that the LOYAL Brigade go burst, We fought for our Country and King/Queen but canny pay our TAXES,
forgot we boat poppies
Is this a wind up HAHAHA sorry i couldn’t resist it.
The buns go bust , the wee buns go bust and that bigot paisley dies if calsberg did years 2012 would be it Haha would thatcher going next be being gready ? Hail hail
Looks like the grim reaper has his mind set on all things evil just now – really better be careful myself 🙂
Clyde 1 were discussing the potential for clubs applying for a place in the SPL, they said Rangers are perfectly entitled to do so in the case of insolvency.
Anyone know how this works? The thing i don’t get is this, why would a team outside the SPL bother applying when the league is full? There would be no point bothering to apply. Even if the SPL wanted to let in a different club, how would they fit in the league? They couldn’t kick a team out, where would they go? They couldn’t relegate more teams all the way down the leagues.
So they only teams this could ever possibly benefit are current SPL teams that go bust?
For the good of Scottish football would this mean Celtic and Rangers are safe from being relegated?