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Forest were the first team to pay £1 million for a player (Trevor Francis) and he was hailed as the million pound player. That figure included VAT though, so Brum only received £900,000ish as VAT was only 8 or 10% at the time.

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Absolutely, the VAT element is inconsquential in most business to business transcations as it is rare for one of the parties to be non VAT registered.

It isn't inconsequential when you're a one man band and you have to spend a day or two every quarter doing your VAT return :noexpression: I never did like Maths.

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It isn't inconsequential when you're a one man band and you have to spend a day or two every quarter doing your VAT return :noexpression: I never did like Maths.

He complaineth he earns too much money :preacher:

But you are quite correct and the buggers have far too many powers, more so than the Police! :bruce_h4h:

Remember years ago, had a VAT Inspection, two of em turned up. It was in the days when written petrol receipts were the norm. One of em looked at me and asked if I bought me fags with the petrol. In my most innocent voiceI replied that I didn't smoke cigarrettes thank you very much. Now if he'd have asked about me cigars. :innocent06:

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Intersting accounting fact (If there is such a thing) -

Footballers are the only example of "human assets" which are depreciated. For those who don't know what that means - say you buy a car for £4k and own it for four years, after which it is worthless, it would have deprecieted by £1k per year.

In the same way, if you buy a player for £2M on a 2 year contract, he is assumed (post bosman) to be worthless after that time, so has depreciated by £1M per year.

What's unusual about this is that most businesses treat staff (in the accounting sense) as overheads rather than assets

God I'm bored.

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