Tyler Durden

Compared to some of the random diatrabes I've encountered on here littered with grammatical and syntax errors the OP's post was positively coherent. 

Oh dear. It’s “diatribes”.

This does raise the interesting question of whether DCFC claimed furlough money for non footballing staff, used this to pay them their net wages, having deducted their taxes ' NI and then didn't pay over those deductions even though the government had, largely, given us up to 80% of the gross pay.

Didn’t realise Simon Armitage was on the Forum.

If you again take the letter of the question then absolutely the squad as of yesterdays game should be challenging for promotion next season.....we've got a number of full internationals playing for us.....however can't realistically see Lawrence, Bielik or Jozwiak being with us after the summer so... 

You're right, of course. It would be more factually correct for them to say "Wayne Rooney is the manager".....

This is such a strange thread considering everything that has and is going on and in terms of our overall performances I think Rooney is not far off manager of the season if the league were to finish now 

OMG. I actually agree with you!

So that’ll be the end of Charlotte Ram then. Every cloud...?

I believe he is legally prevented from doing so. When placing your company into liquidation, you hand over all control to the administrators- and the club is not your business any longer. As a result, I can’t see any way that Mel Morris could pay HMRC now and them accept that as settlement of the debt. For instance, if any of us called up HMRC today and offered to pay £10 towards Derby’s debt, I don’t think they could accept it (not that I’m about to try and test that!). Now Mel Morris has walked away from the club, he’s treated no differently to us in that regard.
The same goes for all the other creditors- we can’t clear the debts on behalf of Mel or the club. But the St Johns Ambulance fundraiser was outstanding, a touch of class from the fans.
Also, the basis for placing a business in administration is that you can’t pay your debts. So if Mel paid off his debts a couple of months after filing for administration, I suspect that Companies House/HMRC/other creditors/the fraud police (?!) might have some questions about that!
Finally, if Mel had cleared all or part of the HMRC debt before administration, surely we would have failed P&S by an eye-watering amount. To spend c.£28m without corresponding income makes it impossible to limit losses to £13m per year on average.
I am not defending Mel, really I’m not. He should have run this club much smarter, and he sanctioned costs that we’re unsustainable-putting us where we are now. I’m just pointing out that this is a web he spun over a matter of 5 or 6 years, and there’s no easy unravelling of the mess he made.
And there is no excuse for not clearing the St John Ambulance debt and some other amounts owed to local businesses before he left. What damage would £50k or so have done to the DCFC balance sheet? Nothing, relatively speaking. But it might have been crucial income for the charities and local businesses who now stand to receive very little.

If you again take the letter of the question then absolutely the squad as of yesterdays game should be challenging for promotion next season.....we've got a number of full internationals playing for us.....however can't realistically see Lawrence, Bielik or Jozwiak being with us after the summer so... 

All I'm reading is Byzantine possibilities of what HMRC could and couldn't accept as deals when the solution is as plain as the nose on your face - the person responsible for racking up these huge debts pays them, job done.
Silly me for thinking that.

Why doesn't Morris just pay the tax bill that he racked up and then all of this debate will be a total irrelevance

All I'm reading is Byzantine possibilities of what HMRC could and couldn't accept as deals when the solution is as plain as the nose on your face - the person responsible for racking up these huge debts pays them, job done.
Silly me for thinking that.

Why doesn't Morris just pay the tax bill that he racked up and then all of this debate will be a total irrelevance

Fair enough, it just seems like manyana with them like chasing the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.
We're in a desperate situation by even having to rely on the administrators to get us out of the kaka, am sure they'll be paid their fees regardless of whether they find a buyer for the club or not.

Why doesn't Morris just pay the tax bill that he racked up and then all of this debate will be a total irrelevance

All I'm reading is Byzantine possibilities of what HMRC could and couldn't accept as deals when the solution is as plain as the nose on your face - the person responsible for racking up these huge debts pays them, job done.
Silly me for thinking that.