Rangers tax case ruling will have wide-reaching implications, HMRC say

The tax authority opened its investigation into Rangers in 2010.

Many more tax avoidance schemes will be targeted after Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs (HMRC) scored a legal victory following a long-running dispute over payments made to players and staff of Rangers FC.

Five Supreme Court judges unanimously dismissed an appeal by BDO, the liquidators of RFC2012, the company formerly known as Rangers Football Club, following an earlier decision in favour of HMRC at the Court of Session in Edinburgh in November 2015.