Livingston deducted 5 points

[Sandro420 398]

for breaching tax rules

[Inigo 32,526]

SPFL deduct Livingston five points over tax breaches

Championship side Livingston have been deducted five points for breaching Scottish Professional Football League rules relating to non-payment of tax.

At a disciplinary hearing on Monday, Livingston admitted to having failed to advise the SPFL that it had been in default of its tax obligations in relation to payments made to players.

This meant that Livingston had been able to register players outside the normal permitted period.

The club was also fined £10,000.

SPFL chief executive Neil Doncaster said: "The tax default and reporting rules are an integral part of maintaining a fair league competition."

Livingston are currently bottom of the Championship, with two wins and three draws from 14 games.

The loss of five points with immediate effect leaves the West Lothian side on four points, seven adrift of second-bottom Cowdenbeath.

The club has been banned from registering players since the start of the season after it volunteered evidence of undeclared bonus payments.

It has had a turbulent existence since moving to Livingston from Edinburgh in 1995 and changing its name from Meadowbank Thistle.

It won a place in the Uefa Cup only seven years after starting out in the Third Division but has had two spells in administration, between 2004-2005 and in 2009.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/30185423

[bombaybadboy08 15,660]

At least they will struggle to catch us now.

[the goal machine 7,801]

Fancy stopping paying tax, Hearts?

[B1872 20,700]

Fancy stopping paying tax, Hearts?

That's the only way we'll catch them!

[Captain Hilts 12,819]

they're not Livingston anymore

[BlueAvenger 10,237]

Is there an investigation to strip them of titles/ cups......

[mabawsa 888]

I'll catch up with it in their match programme.

[Iandoc1975 1,265]

What about Peterhead being told to play Ayr again after an illegible player was fielded.

I could understand a win being awarded to the side with the correct team sheet but to make the offending team play again is quite bizarre

[Straight-Edge-Loyal 6,686]

Is there an investigation to strip them of titles/ cups......

They haven't won fuck all

[Dickie 12,905]

Sporting integrity!!!

[Brackley 1,401]

Sharpening their knives for us the minute we put a finger wrong?

[mabawsa 888]

What about Peterhead being told to play Ayr again after an illegible player was fielded.

I could understand a win being awarded to the side with the correct team sheet but to make the offending team play again is quite bizarre

Yes. Read Donkeycaster's comment about Sporting Integrity. Funny how Legia Warsaw just got turfed straight out went they did similar to tfe Eastenders.

[Creampuff 22,628]

Won't someone please think of the integrity?!

[The Monk 3,207]

5 points, fuck that'll teach them

[quinty 1,445]

Think about the hospitals, old folks homes, traffic lights, blah blah blah

[cumnockbear 2,446]

Yet C****c get away with years of state aid and the EC provided with solid evidence and fuck all happens, this Country and game is fucked.

[The Educator 1,572]

Brackley - "Sharpening their knives for us the minute we put a finger wrong?"

Wouldn't be surprised, and to be honest I think we can take awe's recent comments at the c****c agm as confirmation of this. Funny how with all of this talk of integrity that he has never been pulled up for bringing the game into disrepute, the again maybe it isn't. When you consider we are in a different league to them I would have to say that his comments at best were ill advised, and indeed could be taken as a threat.

I have no doubts that the real intention for these comments was to deflect people away from a situation that many would say involves his club in some very shady dealings. The EC may have decided not to launch a full investigation this time round, but that will not stop the deals being looked at within the UK for any irregularities. Don't for get we already seem to have one of their shareholders admitting to not declaring his association with them in regard to receipt of over £850,000 for an SLA that there seems to be no formal record of services provided.