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Leicester Tigers salary cap breach?
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<blockquote data-quote="Which Tyler" data-source="post: 1182291" data-attributes="member: 73592"><p>Meh.</p><p>It's a lot more complicated than simply counting up salaries, (win bonuses, appearance bonuses etc etc).</p><p>Looks like they fell foul of a covid change in when the accounting year ended with a few leavers having their end of contract pay counted in 20/21 rather than 19/20 as it would have done under previous regulations.</p><p>It's also less than £50k, so the fine is £1 for every £1 overspent.</p><p>For comparison, Sarries lowest (known) overspend was more than double this.</p><p></p><p>It's an accounting error. It happens.</p><p>The reason the punishments are scaled is because accounting errors happen, and salaries aren't known ahead of time when building a squad. This level isn't considered a p<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0)">i</span>ss-take.</p><p>Of course, if PRL want a zero-tolerance environment, then they can introduce one (which will then be reflected in contracts), and everyone would need to allow more leeway to consider themselves "up to the cap", but for the time being, it's an accepted thing, and I suspect that all clubs have benefitted from it at some point in time (LI and Wuss are the only clubs I can't remember having fingers pointed at them - and yes, I can remember John Hall building the Newcastle squad in the late '90s).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Which Tyler, post: 1182291, member: 73592"] Meh. It's a lot more complicated than simply counting up salaries, (win bonuses, appearance bonuses etc etc). Looks like they fell foul of a covid change in when the accounting year ended with a few leavers having their end of contract pay counted in 20/21 rather than 19/20 as it would have done under previous regulations. It's also less than £50k, so the fine is £1 for every £1 overspent. For comparison, Sarries lowest (known) overspend was more than double this. It's an accounting error. It happens. The reason the punishments are scaled is because accounting errors happen, and salaries aren't known ahead of time when building a squad. This level isn't considered a p[COLOR=rgb(0, 0, 0)]i[/COLOR]ss-take. Of course, if PRL want a zero-tolerance environment, then they can introduce one (which will then be reflected in contracts), and everyone would need to allow more leeway to consider themselves "up to the cap", but for the time being, it's an accepted thing, and I suspect that all clubs have benefitted from it at some point in time (LI and Wuss are the only clubs I can't remember having fingers pointed at them - and yes, I can remember John Hall building the Newcastle squad in the late '90s). [/QUOTE]
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