As Sandro Ruggli, lawyer and member of the board of directors of the Lakers Sports AG, tells the newspaper: "No, we have not recieved the bill yet. We will only settle it, when it arrives."
The Lakers do have the money ready thanks to some provisions, grants by the "100-er Club" (about CHF 120,000) and some other patrons. However, Ruggli clearly is not pleased with the current state of the tax law: "The VAT (value-added tax) law is not satisfactory and needs to be changed."
Back in May, the Federal Court decided that the Rapperswil-Jona Lakers had to pay back CHF 360,000 in taxes to the Federation, because they did not pay the VAT for the donations they got from their "100-er Club" for years.
