Wigan Athletic: HMRC lodges winding-up petition against League One club

Wigan Athletic were placed nether a transportation embargo by the EFL for breaches of taxation commitments, and present look a winding-up petition

His Majesty's Revenue & Customs has lodged a winding-up petition against Wigan Athletic implicit unpaid taxation bills, with a proceeding day of 26 July.

Wigan volition statesman the League One play aft relegation with an eight-point deduction for precocious outgo of salaries.

It besides understood wealth is outstanding from past month's wage payments.

The nine has said it is successful the process of being sold but 1 of the funny parties, 21-year-old businessman Sarbjot Johal, failed to summation EFL support for his proposed acquisition of Morecambe earlier this year.

Winding-up petitions tin beryllium resolved by outgo of indebtedness oregon by statement of a outgo program with the creditor, successful this lawsuit HMRC itself.