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'Arry's game
Jan 11, 2008, 04:47 AM
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Jan 11, 2008, 04:47 AM
It would probably be an overstatement to say that I am a supporter of Portsmouth Football Club (‘Play up Pompey’).
As I used to say in reply to an enquiry as to the last match I saw: ‘Well, they never come and see me when I’m bad’.
However, since Harry Redknapp has been in charge the club has seen a change in its fortunes.
But dark clouds are now on the horizon, with Pompey fans everywhere disheartened by the news that ‘our ’Arry’ is being targeted as the possible new manager for Newcastle FC: 'Wanted: Man of stature and experience to take charge of madhouse' - The Times. (Click here for the less amusingly titled web version.)
A similar sense of foreboding was felt when Harry’s name was mentioned as a possible England manager, and as a conspiracy theorist I have to wonder whether the police raid on his home around the same time was a local initiative to prevent this.
The latest local view (Okay, mine and the other dog-walkers') is that Harry would never want to leave the luxury of his beachside Sandbanks home (the area being reputedly the fourth most expensive real estate on the planet).
‘I am happy down on the South Coast,’ says Redknapp.
And after all, what would be the logistics of managing a club in the North-East while living in Dorset?
However – shock, horror! – the BBC’s Today programme this morning suggested that NUFC owner Mike Ashley could lend Harry his private plane to soften the rigours of a 370-mile commute.
As my contribution to the effort to keep ‘our ’Arry’ at Pompey, can I just point out to him the potential income tax liability on such a benefit in kind, assuming that such airborne trips will simply ‘put him in a position to perform his duties’, rather than being ‘in the performance of his duties’.
No doubt his business advisers will take this into account when considering how far the rumoured salary of £20 million over four years will stretch. Perhaps a PAYE settlement agreement would soften the blow?
To return to Taxation.co.uk, click 'ere.
As I used to say in reply to an enquiry as to the last match I saw: ‘Well, they never come and see me when I’m bad’.
However, since Harry Redknapp has been in charge the club has seen a change in its fortunes.
But dark clouds are now on the horizon, with Pompey fans everywhere disheartened by the news that ‘our ’Arry’ is being targeted as the possible new manager for Newcastle FC: 'Wanted: Man of stature and experience to take charge of madhouse' - The Times. (Click here for the less amusingly titled web version.)
A similar sense of foreboding was felt when Harry’s name was mentioned as a possible England manager, and as a conspiracy theorist I have to wonder whether the police raid on his home around the same time was a local initiative to prevent this.
The latest local view (Okay, mine and the other dog-walkers') is that Harry would never want to leave the luxury of his beachside Sandbanks home (the area being reputedly the fourth most expensive real estate on the planet).
‘I am happy down on the South Coast,’ says Redknapp.
And after all, what would be the logistics of managing a club in the North-East while living in Dorset?
However – shock, horror! – the BBC’s Today programme this morning suggested that NUFC owner Mike Ashley could lend Harry his private plane to soften the rigours of a 370-mile commute.
As my contribution to the effort to keep ‘our ’Arry’ at Pompey, can I just point out to him the potential income tax liability on such a benefit in kind, assuming that such airborne trips will simply ‘put him in a position to perform his duties’, rather than being ‘in the performance of his duties’.
No doubt his business advisers will take this into account when considering how far the rumoured salary of £20 million over four years will stretch. Perhaps a PAYE settlement agreement would soften the blow?
To return to Taxation.co.uk, click 'ere.
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