Must have been obvious to most that when the club still owed HMRC after Hilton left that he only cleared enough off the original amount owed to enable transfers to resume. HMRC work with businesses in financial trouble to allow them to clear a big tax debt as reasonably as they can but clearly Hilton never cleared the whole debt and he won’t be the first club owner that has done the same. It was his dishonesty about a myriad of issues that did for him, the full unpaid tax bill was just one of them.
