Revenue Raise Concerns As Some GAA County Board Accounts Written In Marker On Hurl Grip Tape

WITH MAYO and Galway GAA not in a position to sign off on their accounts and seeking GAA HQ intervention as Revenue belatedly discovered the organisation’s existence, it has been claimed that some county boards’ monitoring of accounts was limited to scribbling expense claims down on discarded hurl grip tape.

“They may be an amateur organisation but we’re one step shy of doing calculations using an abacus made of character references,” confirmed one tax expert.

“Ah, accounting is like GAA rule changes, a complete pain in the hole and if you kick up enough of a fuss they just change them back again in the end,” confirmed one county board member who is pretty sure mileage, payments and holidays worth thousands in payments aren’t the tax man’s business and the only receipt he’s kept is a nod and a wink.

“GAA (Gaelic Accounting Adjustments) is a complex financial system that Revenue officials simply don’t understand but it’s straightforward, if one of the senior team lads receives a car from a sponsor gratis, you jot down ‘nutritional allowance’ and that’s the end of it,” explained one county board official.

Finding that the usual method of sternly repeating ‘but we’re the GAA’ didn’t immediately result in being left alone to do what they like, county boards are calling on Jarlath Burns to track down what club senior Revenue officials kids’ play for and get them dropped from teams.

In one instance a junior B player is said to have received €40,000 in nutritional allowance payments for consuming over 7,000 breakfast roles. Revenue only accepted the accounts when forced to witness the man down 18 breakfast roles in 7 minutes.

UPDATE: County boards are calling for a counter review into Revenue to see how many English soccer loving West Brit Dubs are working for Revenue.