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![The Treasury Committee has formally contacted HMRC regarding the potential tax consequences stemming from the Premier League's ongoing investigation into Manchester City.
You will be aware of the recent publication of the Premier League’s Independent Commission’s Core Decision on its investigation into Manchester City Football Club Ltd. That Core Decision, regarding “well over 100 individual breaches of the Premier League Rules across the course of many seasons”¹, contains the following findings:
"In essence a significant part of the remuneration that we find was payable by the Club to [redacted] in return for the services that [redacted] was contracted to provide to the Club [redacted]
a) Was not recorded in [redacted] employment contract (or elsewhere) as a liability of the Club or as being payable by the Club, but
b) Was instead recorded in a Consultancy Agreement between [redacted] and [redacted].
*The [redacted] thus concealed the true extent of the Club's liabilities for [redacted]."*²
The Commission found that the Club “utilised devices” (such as the above) “to disguise the true extent of certain Club liabilities”³, which were found to be “shams and/or did not reflect the economic substance of the arrangements that in fact existed.”⁴
Can you confirm to the Committee that HMRC is aware of these findings (pending appeal)?
Have you asked for, and/or been provided with the unredacted version of this report?
While I acknowledge that taxpayer confidentiality may inhibit what you can disclose, I would welcome reassurance from HMRC that you are seized of the importance of these issues and the public interest in the case.
¹ Premier-League-Manchester-City-Independent-Commission-Redacted-Core-Decision.pdf, para 1
² Premier-League-Manchester-City-Independent-Commission-Redacted-Core-Decision.pdf, para 92
³ Premier-League-Manchester-City-Independent-Commission-Redacted-Core-Decision.pdf, para 91
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