RTC slaughters Stewart Regan as he voices topical tax concern

Stewart Regan probably thought that he could boost his street cred when he took to Twitter to highlight the embargo that BBC News has put on the tax scandal involving Nadhim Zahawi.

The Tory chief is reported to have coughed up £3m to HMRC, unlike Boris Becker, Ken Dodd and Lester Piggot the multimillionaire won’t be spending time in jail reflecting on his ‘tax issues’.

He’d probably rather forget all about it but Regan was CEO of the SFA as the football authorities turned a blind eye to the tax scams committed by Rangers Football Club before they went into administration and liquidation.

Regan never raised a single question about the token salaries registered with the SFA and SPL while Rangers embarked on disguised remuneration on an industrial scale.

Queen of the South and Falkirk lost out in Scottish Cup Finals as the Ibrox club fielded teams rammed full of ineligible players.

Taking over from Gordon Smith as CEO in October 2010 Regan lasted seven and a half years in the job, assisted greatly by the heavily conflicted Campbell Ogilvie as President of the SFA.

In total HMRC missed out on £60m owed to them by Rangers through a variety of schemes, despite the use of ineligible players the old club is still listed as winners of the Scottish Cup in 2002, 2003, 2008 and 2009.

Stewart wasn’t always so concerned about taxes.
When running @scottishfa, he ignored Rangers’ fraud. Even early in the 2011/12 season, when he knew Whyte wasn’t remitting any taxes, he did nothing. His SFA gave a fraudulently obtained UEFA license to them.#OneRuleForThem https://t.co/kxN56KOShk

— Rangers Tax-Case (@rangerstaxcase) January 17, 2023

He also ignored the fact that his President, Mr Ogilvie not only knew about the tax evasion but actively covered it up.

— The Forthright Forehead (@Forthright4Head) January 17, 2023

The game would wither on the vine, Scottish society couldn’t cope without a rangers* any kind of rangers* look at what we got, goodness me, also ‘heavily conflicted’ Campbell Ogilvie remained in office throughout the whole putrid glory, scandalous doesn’t even come close, unreal.

— . (@N0vaGaz) January 17, 2023

Glass houses

— david taylor (@DavidDt45) January 17, 2023