Hi everyone.
I have a full report ready to go out to David Gauke at the Treasury and have had some other contact from parliament. One of our AGCO members who is an accountant has another brilliant lead on a VAT article and we are progressing well with correspondence with various big cheeses. One of our AGCO members has done a brilliant job on investigating huge member-owned clubs getting 80% rates relief of about £20,000 to £30,000 a year. Yet another tax scam. We are unearthing some brilliant fraud within our friends in the largest member-owned clubs. Now have found one with £1.2 million of green fees and not a penny of tax paid.
Do rest assured I am ploughing on. There is a great deal going on in the background with tremendous help from many of you. Some of it is just too sensitive to send out widely over the Internet but do keep me in touch. I particularly want to hear from any of you who have local clubs who are massive commercial member-owned clubs with CASC status, or where there is huge green fee income. Just for your information some of the large CASC members clubs include Mill Hill, Huddersfield, Willingdon, Addington Palace, Potters Bar, Finchley, Old Fold Manor. All get corporation tax relief providing their trading turnover is less than £30,000 – and they should distinguish fully between money from members and outsiders. They are supposed to be affordable for the community! All can get their 80% rate relief which is presumably why they are doing it.
Affiliation fees. I have a query going forward with the EGU. I say that it is the men’s section that is affiliated to the EGU and not my business. My main point is that I don’t see why we should hand over affiliation fees for people we cannot collect from. It varies from county to county. In Cambridgeshire they are insistent that we pay our fees in February even though we cannot collect until April.
Please email me if you have the head of HMRC at your club.
Please also send me any email contacts for local and national press who we can send the release to about the VAT 5% petition.
Happy and prosperous Christmas and 2012.
Viv