Did Celtic have more than one EBT?

[Steve1872 4]

Chris McLaughlin‏@BBCchrismclaug

In response to questions re #SPL investigation into #Celtic EBT, SPL say secretary Iain Blair investigated and reported to board.

[Guest Vaper]

So, the SPL task Iain Blair(an SPL emloyee) to investigate Celtic and their use of EBT's but hire a team of lawyers, a Lord and two QC's to investigate Rangers.

 

Yep, this all seems above board.

[Little General 80]

So, the SPL task Iain Blair(an SPL emloyee) to investigate Celtic and their use of EBT's but hire a team of lawyers, a Lord and two QC's to investigate Rangers.

 

Yep, this all seems above board.

 

absolutely astonishing.

SPL corrupt to the core. oh and McLaughlin if he was any sort of journalist should be questioning Blair on it.

[Crimson Dynamo 128]

You would think any journalist worth his salt would be questioning why the difference. Is it not a fundamental of journalism the need to know why?

[andy steel 0]

Not if you don't care, it isn't.

[True_Ger_1872 2]

This is rather interesting as I would say that the correct stance must be "innocent until proven guilty"

 

Now for Celtic to have been cleared of any wrong doing is strange as you cannot prove an EBT is administered properly (I think?), all you can do is state that there is no side contract / letter that states that the player(s) will not need to repay any loans. This fact is why Rangers are being investigated as there is apparrently evidence of these side letters / contracts which would mean that Rangers may have breached the rules as there is grounds for an investigation.

 

So in essence, what I make from this is that Celtic admitted to haveing an EBT, disclosed that they administered it properly, disclosed that they paid the "potential tax liability" and that was enough to satisfy the SPL.

 

No-one in their right mind would also have said "oh aye, we also ave these standard letters we sent out that rules out any repayments...." - that would be totally shooting yourself in the foot. Which begs the real question - why has there been so much investigation, leaking of confidential documents, television broadcasts surrounding Rangers....when Celtic's word is good enough when questioned about the exact same scheme???

 

Answers on a postcard please....

[Anchorman 0]

"In 2008, after becoming aware there was a potential tax liability related to EBTs, Celtic reached an agreement to pay a sum to HMRC."

 

Payment made in 2005, and in 2008 you 'become aware' of HMRC liability. Could this be round about the time that certain HMRC staff were openly 'becoming aware' that something big was about to go down at Rangers.

It's a renowned bead rattling organisation as I know plenty who hold positions in there. The Knights of St Columbus Club in Blantyre will vouch for that!

Surely the Sellik weren't tipped off by Holy Mary's Roman Corruption? Too much conspiracy? Don't be so sure. I know the nature of the Bheast in question.

[Anchorman 0]

And one other thing Ally knows too as plenty of them drink in EK as the same venues Ally frequents.

[ian1964 10,427]

Leggat:

 

LAWWELL, DONCASTER, THE SPL AND CELTIC'S EBT

 

IF there is anyone out there who is surprised that it took the Scottish Premier League just 48 hours to clear Celtic of any wrongdoing in their use of an EBT, then that someone must have been living on Mars for the last year.

 

For that is just about the only place in the universe where it appears Celtic’s all powerful chief executive Peter Lawwell’s writ does not run.

 

Neil Doncaster may walk about with the title of chief executive of the Scottish Premier, League, but as far as appearances are concerned he looks like no more than a lackey.

 

Celtic chief executive Peter Lawwell’s lackey, that is.

 

Many people now believe that when Peter Lawwell says, jump, Neil Doncaster asks, how high? And through which hoop?

 

One thing Neil Doncaster has never answered properly, for instance, is exactly why it was that Peter Lawwell, a man with no previous position on the Scottish Premier League Board, was suddenly parachuted in to top level last ditch television talks with Sky.

 

And when?

 

Was it, for instance, before the news leaked into the public domain via a Daily Record exclusive, that Lawwell had been in London representing the SPL at negotiations with Sky?

 

And if so, why was the news not made public? Did Neil Doncaster feel there was something to hide?

 

The story which laid bare Peter Lawwell's previously hush-hush involvement with the SPL, like many the Daily Record has uncovered, was sure to have left Lawwell seething.

 

The Record increasingly looks like the only part of the Press in Scotland which is not in the iron grip of Peter Lawwell

 

Or was Lawwell suddenly granted privileged and unprecedented access to the Scottish Premier League top table in the period between that Daily Record tale first alerting everyone to what appeared like collusion between SPL’s Neil Doncaster and Celtic’s Peter Lawwell and the pair being caught on camera in the departure lounge at Glasgow Airport on their way to London?

 

What Doncaster has also never explained is why it was necessary for Peter Lawwell to be included in the television talks and for the Celtic supremo to work so closely with his lackey, SPL chief executive Neil Doncaster when Celtic already have a director sitting on the SPL board, Lawwell’s £250,000-a-year Parkhead finance director, Eric Riley.

 

Though that lack of an explanation from Neil Doncaster, just like the SPL’s stampede to clear Celtic of any EBT wrongdoing, is no surprise.

 

For the simple reason that Neil Doncaster, either instigating Peter Lawwell’s access to SPL powerbroker, or agreeing to go along with it whoever came up with the wheeze, is inexplicable.

 

Just about the only thing Neil Doncaster could say on the subject which would ring true and be believed by almost everyone, would be to admit that Peter Lawwell is now the most feared and powerful man in Scottish football, that Peter Lawwell now rules the roost with such complete control in a bullying reign of terror, that nobody can refuse him anything and that he, Neil Doncaster, was in no position to shut Lawwell out.

 

Does that explanation read right? Do you believe that?

 

You may, but I could not possibly comment.

 

Celtic and an EBT? Wrongdoing? The very thought of it. Move along now, is what the Scottish Premier League, the latest Scottish football governing body to fall victim to Peter Lawwell’s dictatorial reign, seem to be saying. Nothing to see here, is what they Neil Doncaster and the Scottish Premier League seem to be saying.

 

Before, possibly adding, and anyway, we are far too busy with our witch hunt against Rangers to have time for anything else.

[the gunslinger 3,366]

ebts werent outnlawed till 2010 I think.

 

I suspect hmrc sent out assessments to all participants just as a kite flying exvercise. celtc paid simply because it was a small amount.