You've clearly not bothered to read the tribunal finding Deek.
FACT. Rangers were guilty of tax evasion, not as guilty as HMRC had claimed but guilty none the less. It's a bit like somebody in court getting getting a lesser sentence than expected..... to simplify things for you.... verdicts still guilty.
You should read it so see how underhand your dead club was. The view of the dissenting opinion (the only tax expert on the panel) is particularly scathing. I suspect there's enough scope there for HMRC to appeal.
I also liked this bit:
Then, Mr Thornhill submitted, the employee should be
taxed not on the emolument but on the benefit. It was irrelevant, he continued,
whether the Remuneration Trust benefit was contractual. He conceded that where it
derived from a (footballer’s) side-letter it was contractual, but not in the cases of
bonuses paid to employees of other Murray Group companies.
So Sir Minty's QC acknowledges the that players' side contracts were contractual. That'll be those side contracts that weren't submitted to the football authorities.
LET THE TITLE STRIPPING COMMENCE
