3 hours ago, Richard P said:

We should be ok with the prices for food and drink. I stupidly bought a bottle of coke for £3.30 last week and the smallest of mars bars for £1.40. Get 40,000 others to do it and we must rolling in it.

We shouldn’t be ok with it at all. If the prices were reasonable and the food edible then people might be inclined to spend money. I have barely bought anything at the bridge in the last two years.

They’ve even had the cheek to charge the full price of the pint you can buy 20 metres for a shot of beer to take advantage of people not wanting to queue twice. I’m surprised nobody has kicked off at that one yet!

 

https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/8113592/man-utd-tax-arsenal-chelsea/

PREM clubs paid less than £90m in tax BETWEEN them over nearly a decade, new figures have revealed.

In the period between 2008 and 2017, Arsenal were the biggest contributors to Inland Revenue funds by giving the Taxman £30m.

North London neighbours Spurs handed over £24m, with Manchester United paying £14m.

The rest of the Prem sides paid less than £19m between them, with Liverpool, Manchester City and Chelsea not paying anything, according to figures collated by football finance expert Swiss Ramble.

 

Clubs are able to use past losses to reduce tax on profits, although their players pay huge sums in Income Tax in addition to their National Insurance contributions.

 

Now I realise that companies use tax and accounting laws to their advantage but this is everything that is wrong in this country.

 

 

22 hours ago, MANoWAR said:

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Guess we need to be careful in interpreting, I would assume this is an average over the 9 years.

Big takeway is the more you spend / earn means more success, just consider the top six here.

Anomalies:

Utd and Arsenal huge operations funding in Green 

Us and City have large owner donations.

We are the only club to have interest receipts, I guess this is money received form the loanees.

Spurs have the biggest funding of external loans.

Lastly looks like Bournemouth give tickets away for free.

 

All that those 10 year figures show is Utd are a cash printing machine and that there is no way they should be as bad as they are.

 

10 hours ago, charierre said:

https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/8113592/man-utd-tax-arsenal-chelsea/

PREM clubs paid less than £90m in tax BETWEEN them over nearly a decade, new figures have revealed.

In the period between 2008 and 2017, Arsenal were the biggest contributors to Inland Revenue funds by giving the Taxman £30m.

North London neighbours Spurs handed over £24m, with Manchester United paying £14m.

The rest of the Prem sides paid less than £19m between them, with Liverpool, Manchester City and Chelsea not paying anything, according to figures collated by football finance expert Swiss Ramble.

 

Clubs are able to use past losses to reduce tax on profits, although their players pay huge sums in Income Tax in addition to their National Insurance contributions.

 

Now I realise that companies use tax and accounting laws to their advantage but this is everything that is wrong in this country.

 

 

You want football clubs to act like normal companies?

Cut spending on transfers etc to maximise profit. The reason Premier League teams don't pay much in company tax is that most teams are either not profitable, or make little profit. Arsenal payed the most tax as they are a business first and a football club second. I doubt many Chelsea fans want the club to act like Arsenal has in the last decade. 

 

Though I must say taxation is theft, the state stealing your property under threat of violence. 

1 hour ago, kiwi1691 said:

You want football clubs to act like normal companies?

Cut spending on transfers etc to maximise profit. The reason Premier League teams don't pay much in company tax is that most teams are either not profitable, or make little profit. Arsenal payed the most tax as they are a business first and a football club second. I doubt many Chelsea fans want the club to act like Arsenal has in the last decade. 

 

Though I must say taxation is theft, the state stealing your property under threat of violence. 

When i I'm paying more tax yes. What the duck do you think pays for the services we all use. Football clubs and other companies like Amazon are being allowed by governments to get away with theft.

On 04/01/2019 at 20:45, charierre said:

When i I'm paying more tax yes. What the duck do you think pays for the services we all use. Football clubs and other companies like Amazon are being allowed by governments to get away with theft.

Everyone working for the club, players, stewards, tea lady, security guards at Cobham, they're all paying tax.

3 hours ago, Delnino said:

Everyone working for the club, players, stewards, tea lady, security guards at Cobham, they're all paying tax.

And paying it themselves. Similar to Amazon and a host of other companies. Is it right the tea lady pays her dues whilst corporations use laws to circumvent paying. Sorry  we have a social care crisis, NHS underfunded, Schools chronically underfunded not to mention cuts to the police etc, these devices all need paying for. None of us like paying tax, we have to and so should the major companies who are operating within this country. As a footnote there is many a cleaner / tea lady who will be working hard within a company earning a small wage but paying more tax than the CEO, that can't be right.

15 hours ago, charierre said:

And paying it themselves. Similar to Amazon and a host of other companies. Is it right the tea lady pays her dues whilst corporations use laws to circumvent paying. Sorry  we have a social care crisis, NHS underfunded, Schools chronically underfunded not to mention cuts to the police etc, these devices all need paying for. None of us like paying tax, we have to and so should the major companies who are operating within this country. As a footnote there is many a cleaner / tea lady who will be working hard within a company earning a small wage but paying more tax than the CEO, that can't be right.

I don't know how you can compare us, a football club with year on year losses for the past 20+ years until recently, to Amazon/Google etc and their huge profit/ability to print money. Completely different situations. Yes, I 100% agree with you that there are a lot of very successful companies out there that do not pay their fair share in tax - the likes of Amazon and Facebook that have all the benefits of accessing the UK market but find loopholes to avoid paying as much tax as the average Joe. That's not right. I wouldn't paint us with the same brush though. And I can guarantee to you that the likes of Bruce Buck will be paying a lot more in tax at Chelsea than any of the cleaning staff, stewards, etc. If we're making an annual net loss, what should we be paying tax on? Do you think Abramovich is making huge money from us? He's not. He'll be making his profit from the club when he eventually decides to sell. 

7 minutes ago, DannyVblue said:

 And I can guarantee to you that the likes of Bruce Buck will be paying a lot more in tax at Chelsea than any of the cleaning staff, stewards, etc.

Given the recent story about how Kante has refused to use offshore accounts and will pay the full tax amount on his wages meaning he now pays more UK tax than the rest of the squad I don't know if I would be so sure that our Chairman is paying any significant amount of tax in the UK. 

Tax havens and tax loopholes are a massive issue in the UK. 

There are far too many large companies and well paid professionals not paying their share... Chelsea included. 

3 hours ago, DannyVblue said:

I don't know how you can compare us, a football club with year on year losses for the past 20+ years until recently, to Amazon/Google etc and their huge profit/ability to print money. Completely different situations. Yes, I 100% agree with you that there are a lot of very successful companies out there that do not pay their fair share in tax - the likes of Amazon and Facebook that have all the benefits of accessing the UK market but find loopholes to avoid paying as much tax as the average Joe. That's not right. I wouldn't paint us with the same brush though. And I can guarantee to you that the likes of Bruce Buck will be paying a lot more in tax at Chelsea than any of the cleaning staff, stewards, etc. If we're making an annual net loss, what should we be paying tax on? Do you think Abramovich is making huge money from us? He's not. He'll be making his profit from the club when he eventually decides to sell. 

The original article said premier league clubs had paid a total of 90 m between them over the past 8 years with some paying no tax at all.   i.e that equates to myself and most members on here having paid more tax than these multi million pound enterprises in the last week. There are huge amounts of money floating around football, how they spend it is totally upto them but yes they should pay their fair share of tax. Loopholes allow these companies and some individuals to circumvent paying whilst they are happy to still enjoy the services we have available. 

Apparently the club will have a transfer ban incoming, so maybe stockpiling players this month for that reason? 

There's a long thread on our financial situation here.

 

https://twitter.com/SwissRamble

 

Edited January 14, 20197 yr by abramovich

We spent a lot under Conte, although we won't recoup this money getting some back via sales must be a priority to reduce some of these costs.

 

Top clubs revenue for previous year. 

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2019/jan/24/real-madrid-barcelona-overtake-manchester-united-football-top-earners-deloitte-money-league

2017-18 revenue in £m (v 2016-17 revenue)

1) Real Madrid 665.2 (579.7) – up from 2 last year
2) Barcelona 661.6 (557.1) – up from 3
3) Manchester United 590 (581.2) – down from 1
4) Bayern Munich 557.4 (505.1) – unchanged
5) Manchester City 503.5 (453.5) – unchanged
6) Paris Saint-Germain 479.9 (417.8) – up from 7
7) Liverpool 455.1 (364.5) – up from 9
8) Chelsea 448 (367.8) – unchanged
9) Arsenal 389.1 (419) – down from 6
10) Tottenham Hotspur 379.4 (308.9) – up from 11
11) Juventus 349.8 (348.6) – down from 10
12) Borussia Dortmund 281 (285.8) – unchanged
13) Atlético Madrid 269.6 (234.2) – unchanged
14) Internazionale 248.7 (225.2) – up from 15
15) Roma 221.5 (147.6) – new entry
16) Schalke 216 (197.8) – unchanged
17) Everton 188.6 (171.2) – up from 20
18) Milan 184 (164.7) – new entry
19) Newcastle United 178.5 (85.7) – new entry
20) West Ham 175.3 (183.3) – down from 17

 

Just another post to add with @enigma

General CFC news

UEFA dropped the racism investigation from Visit due to lack of evidence. 

Appears freelance Dan levene was the only "evidence" they could find. Someone who profitted over the news.

Very frustrating this keeps happening. There are some scum in our fanbase but twice this season we've made the papers for things that didn't happen. 

11 hours ago, bisright1 said:

General CFC news

UEFA dropped the racism investigation from Visit due to lack of evidence. 

Appears freelance Dan levene was the only "evidence" they could find. Someone who profitted over the news.

Very frustrating this keeps happening. There are some scum in our fanbase but twice this season we've made the papers for things that didn't happen. 

What happened to the investigation into the Chelsea fans abusing people on a train? You know, the 100% definite Chelsea fans wearing blue heading back to the midlands after a Leicester game.....

Dan Levene, the childhood Tottenham fan, making stuff up about Chelsea again? Surely not.

2 minutes ago, RIP Mourinho said:

Dan Levene, the childhood Tottenham fan

Was he really? 

That explains a lot. 

1 hour ago, ForeverCarefree said:

Was he really? 

That explains a lot. 

Generally speaking I'm not a fan of the modern use of the phrase 'virtue signalling' as it tends to be an expression of all the wrong views, but if there was ever a man who embodied it...

On 03/01/2019 at 23:09, Munkworth said:

We shouldn’t be ok with it at all. If the prices were reasonable and the food edible then people might be inclined to spend money. I have barely bought anything at the bridge in the last two years.

They’ve even had the cheek to charge the full price of the pint you can buy 20 metres for a shot of beer to take advantage of people not wanting to queue twice. I’m surprised nobody has kicked off at that one yet!

 

I can’t afford Bridge prices. I take a hip flask of Wild Turkey and hard boiled eggs.

I crack the egg shells on the back of the head of whoever’s sitting in front of me generally.

1 hour ago, Ewell CFC said:

I can’t afford Bridge prices. I take a hip flask of Wild Turkey and hard boiled eggs.

I crack the egg shells on the back of the head of whoever’s sitting in front of me generally.

Bad ass

2 hours ago, Ewell CFC said:

I can’t afford Bridge prices. I take a hip flask of Wild Turkey and hard boiled eggs.

I crack the egg shells on the back of the head of whoever’s sitting in front of me generally.

Hardcore Hooli

I can’t afford Bridge prices. I take a hip flask of Wild Turkey and hard boiled eggs.
I crack the egg shells on the back of the head of whoever’s sitting in front of me generally.

So it was you. I've still got pieces of shell down my neck. Pity you didn't share the Wild Turkey.