"Buried" News?

Two extremely cogent news stories which appear to have (been?) slipped under the radar:

would love to no how PARFC were getting confused about MATERIAL BENEFITS

sounds very fishy to me HMRC tax avoidance tax man knocking on door trouble same old rugby

I have submitted my Club's Return this year and last. It wasn't easy in 2018/19, despite our payroll being managed through an accountancy firm. The Material Benefits clause could be awkward for those paying current students. I have some sympathy with PA but do recall that I held off submitting my Return until the last minute to check every query. Even then we were asked for contract details, which were satisfactory.

I just don't see how when PARFC were the ones that contacted the RFU to say they may have done it wrong, then corrected the error, and still get hammered.   Sorry, but I think that is petty and totally unwarranted 

Rabbie Burns wrote: I think the most famous case is in this neck of the woods was Medway RFC who complained about there players being poached and ended up a couple of leagues down, fined and other sanctions all around benefits in kind

Robb wrote: Rabbie Burns wrote: I think the most famous case is in this neck of the woods was Medway RFC who complained about there players being poached and ended up a couple of leagues down, fined and other sanctions all around benefits in kind Though Medway also originally claimed to the RFU that the players were amateur while they were giving them semi-pro benefits without declaring them. Medway's wasn't just an administrative oversight.

Cannon wrote: Robb wrote: Rabbie Burns wrote: I think the most famous case is in this neck of the woods was Medway RFC who complained about there players being poached and ended up a couple of leagues down, fined and other sanctions all around benefits in kind Though Medway also originally claimed to the RFU that the players were amateur while they were giving them semi-pro benefits without declaring them. Medway's wasn't just an administrative oversight. If you recall at the time Medway were castigated by all around them, yet it was well known other local clubs "amateur players" were benefitting from playing rugby, in the Kent press there was an article that clubs were poaching yet no one had followed their complaints up. My club was at L6 at the same time and we were very aware of players receiving material benefits and not just in Kent. From my limited research, all the cases of clubs being disciplined are where the said club has made the RFU aware themselves, either through declaring their accounts for grants, loans or allowances or where a club has complained of players being poached.

Among the bad news, the staff at the former YC Academy have been made redundant.

After Rams had a points deduction for roughly the same offence as Plymouth the RFU probably has no choice, but that doesn't stop them being total Huckleberrywombles when it comes to dealing with volunteers.