A group of Aberdeen fans have staged a banner protest against the SPFL at Hampden.
On route to Hamilton to watch Derek McInnes’ side in action they unfurled a banner outside the National Stadium which read: ‘YOU MAY HAVE DUPED LNS BUT NOT US. NEW ENQUIRY.’
Earlier this month the Court of Session returned a 3-0 verdict in favour of Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs in The Big Tax case against Rangers (IL).
HMRC had pursued the matter in respect of £47m of payments given to players, management and officials of the Ibrox club.
In March 2012 the SPL appointed William Nimmo Smith to hold an enquiry into all payments made by Rangers since July 1998- when the SPL started.
For unknown reasons the report by Nimmo Smith covered a period starting in November 2000 overlooking the Wee Tax Case involving payments made to Tore Andre Flo and Ronald de Boer who joined the club before that date.
Despite finding the club guilty of not disclosing all contractual payments to players Nimmo Smith concluded that a £250,000 fine was sufficient for a decade of financial doping. Nimmo Smith based much of his conclusion on a First Tier Tax Tribunal that ruled against HMRC on a 2-1 verdict.
With the Court of Session deeming the payments taxable with the club gaining an unfair sporting advantage pressure is now on clubs to demand that the Nimmo Smith enquiry is revisited.
BDO has until December 2 to appeal against the Court of Session decision, Aberdeen will hold their shareholders Annual General Meeting on December 7.
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Good on them, the more support from rival fans the better. Let’s see if the press give them any publicity !
HH
well well well………good on them!……..time for some other fans/clubs to have a say also…if brave enough! As you say wulz lets see what the so called press do with that.
Can’t understand why they appointed a guy named “Billy” Nimmo Smith to carry out the investigation in the first place. Any suggestions anyone?
Well done the sheep botherers!
inquiry HA HA HA
Zombie
Your latest club just posted 7.5 million loses and needs external finance just to survive to the end of the season. £1brokes is falling apart and needs millions spend on it, big Mike has by the heehaws and your directors are due in court again. It isn’t hard to see why you’ve been creamed time and time again. Bet you where in the que when Chuckles GREEN ( with his teapot )was saying when we get to there in the que, that’s 10 million we can invest in the playing staff. HAHHA
SILLY BILLY
Go the Dons fans…well done… If only the ” rest ” of Scottish football fans had baws like that….
This needs pushing by other Clubs Fans to show the strength of feeling there is behind the move to clean up our game.
Let’s all laugh at the zombie cheats