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May firm on $600k

Sports Reporter
Federation of International Cricketers Association (FICA) has remained firm on their claim that Bangladesh Premier League franchises owe foreign cricketers 600,000 dollars.
FICA CEO Tim May said yesterday that
outstanding to the players. He also said that there hasn't been any tax documentation made available to the players.
"They IBPL] certainly appear to have little idea of what they owe players, and they certainly can't produce any documentation of the 25% tax deducted from players' pays [this is in addition to the monies owing to players].
"We have been requesting this proof of
the BPL stated amount --70,000 dollars -- is an inaccurate figure. He also informed that FICA has requested permission of the players to release their information.
"They [BPL! state that is only 70k [70,000] dollars -- that's one third of what is owing to just one overseas player," said May in an e-mail to The Daily Star Sport. "As of last Tuesday when we put our media release out there was about 600,000
payment from BPL and the franchises for some months --not one player has received this documentation.
"One has to query if they have paid this amount at all -surely if they had they would supply the documentation to players. Hopefully for the franchises sake they have otherwise I would imagine they will be falling foul of the Bangladeshi taxation authorities," he said.
dollars owing to overseas players. This doesn't count monies owed to domestic players -- that also amounts to hundreds of thousand of dollars."
"We have requested permission of the players to release their information and are awaiting their response," he said, assuring that the information will be disclosed whenever available.
But May doubted whether the BPL officials knew the accurate figures that are
Meanwhile in the latest move the BPL governing council has sent letters to all six franchises and set July 21 as the new deadline to complete all payments which will include the payments made out by the Bangladesh Cricket Board to the players, on behalf of the franchises.
If the franchises cannot make payments under the new deadline, the BPL has threatened to pull the plug on their contracts and go for new franchises. FROM PAGE 16
BPL chairman Gazi Ashral Hossain has also said that the franchises have also been asked to pay up the bidding money, which would amount toTk 11 crore.
But as far as payments to the local players are concerned, the BPL has been lenient with the franchises, asking them to clear payments before Eid UI Fitr.