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    Posted by: nutella 08/02/2012 at 19:46
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    Was this expense justifiable?
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    Posted by: benvanloo 08/02/2012 at 19:49
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     Clearly not, he was found innocent. I don't know what the amount of tax he was supposed to have avoided was but unless it dwarfed the £8m cost even a guilty verdict would have been a loss for the tax payer.

    Sounds like they gambled on a high profile case and lost. Shame they can't get my tax code right even after 4 years

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    Posted by: sparkleghirl 08/02/2012 at 19:52
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    Never mind. if the get the £49million they believe they're owed by Rangers it'll more than pay for the Renknapp case.
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    Posted by: Mangleworzle 08/02/2012 at 20:06
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    He was on the radio decsribing it as a nightmare and how it had dragged on for 5 years before the actual trial.

    Then some bloke from HMRC gave a warning of "Talk to us before we come and talk to you".

    I think it's impossible to quantify if will be worth it or not, it depends if enough worried possible tax dodgers lose their nerve, I'm sure it will help to shake a few of these out.

    On the other hand I'd rather see the £8M spent on closing loopholes for the stupidly wealthy and big companies who enter a war with the cleverest lawyers ending in a bit of a chat and an agreement to pay some tax which looks respectable but is actually no-where near what they really owe.
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    Posted by: Jude Fawley 08/02/2012 at 20:14
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    He's got to be free to meet the Queen and attend all the functions at the Olympics.

    Such are the duties of the England manager.

    Now should I tell you about what's really going on in the world?
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    Posted by: zuko 08/02/2012 at 20:15
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    And now he is safe to become England's new Messiah manager......who says conspiracy theories don't exist!! :-P
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    Posted by: modelmaker 08/02/2012 at 20:25
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    The facts are quite laughable. Money paid into a Monaco account in the name of his dog, who would have to brighter than mine to gain access to it, even it it wasn't now deceased. A jury of football fans and with the resignation of Fabio Cappello as England Manager, it wouldn't do to have the prospective candidate for the job locked up, would it?

    And everyone hates the taxman anyway. I suspect that if everyone had the resources to pay less tax than they do, and the money to fight the Revenue in court, the Revenue wouldn't be able to pay for it's running costs, let alone find the money to pay for the nation's infrastructure.
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    Posted by: bobvincent 08/02/2012 at 20:29
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    Are HMRC "fit for purpose"? A week after tales of hihly-paid government employees not paying tax direct, but through little companies and stories of negotiations and cosy arrangements with big company bosses about how much tax was owed, comes this fiasco with Harry, the Arthur Daley of football management. The CPS cannot be blameless either. Was the money in question undeclared income? Apparently not. The case should never have got to court. The public are losing money because of gross inefficiency.

    Those shifty little eyes of Harry's are wot did it. I wouldn't buy a used car from him anyway.He claims near-illiteracy but he's good at sums and I bet he'll be able to put a thumb print on his next contract, be it at Spurs or for England.

     

     
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    Posted by: Jaxx99 08/02/2012 at 20:44
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    it is interesting that so many posters reference 'cosy deals' with hmrc.

    would hmrc get better value by resorting to litigation and taking every case to court, spending as much as they have on this case, when by all media reports it should be a clear case, or instead intimidate companies into handing over billions of pounds?

    there isn't much hmrc can do to change the outcome here unless the laws are changed and i fail to really see how many more laws would be needed to get a result the majority of posters would deem 'fair'.
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    Posted by: modelmaker 08/02/2012 at 22:10
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    Jaxx99:
    it is interesting that so many posters reference 'cosy deals' with hmrc.

    I missed that reference myself. Jaxx. Where is it?

    I agree you either have to tighten the law or forget about wasting money chasing high profile and popular people throught he court. You'd have thought they'd have learnt their lesson witn Ken Dodd.
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