United Kingdom: UK tax authority wins case against former owner of Rangers FC (Scotland)

HMRC, the UK tax authority, won its tax case against the former management of Rangers FC (Ladbrokes Premiership) at Scotland’s appeal court on 04/11/2015, thus upholding the original ruling that the use of Employee Benefit Trusts to pay players is illegal.

“The law is clear: the payments made in respect of footballers were in our view derived...