The way our tax system is written, these things would probably be legal.over here
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Seems to be endemic among the biggest names in the Spanish game.
The way our tax system is written, these things would probably be legal.over here
You always hear that footballers pay a lot of tax in this country. Whether it’s the right amount we’ll probably never know.
There was a story about Kante at Chelsea, where they were offering to pay him through an offshore company, to minimise his tax burden, but he refused and said he just wanted to pay normal tax.
Nicest man in football.
Seems to me that with one or two exceptions these cases involve the complex mechanisms tax agents set up related to image rights.
The Spanish tax people go after high profile cases and use them as examples to squeeze any tax owing out of the rest
It’s a situation the Spanish tax people got themselves into in the first place
For British examples of "dubious" tax activities in football , see Portsmouth and their payment intellectual property rights (shirt naming etc) offshore. Also Glasgow Rangers not paying players taxable salaries but instead giving them "loans" which were never called upon to be repaid. The former led to a court case and the discovery of Harry`s dog having a bank account , while the latter is still an ongoing HMRC case where they have been pursuing the individual players involved because Rangers as a company went into liquidation so can`t pay. If you look up the list of players and managers involved (the Scottish press published a list a few years ago) it involves a few with a CCFC connection.
Hands up he or she who has never illegally avoided paying VAT, Income Tax or any other tax....
I suppose a good starting point would be that they shouldn't be paying a lower %tax than the general public, and preferably a higher% as they can afford to contribute more.
I work with some contractors who use a variety of completely legal means that ensures they pay usually somewhere between 10-20% tax on their already very generous salaries, and it isn't right.
Quite a lot of folk I should imagine , if someone can get a job done cash in hand its usually taken ,if you multiply that act in its millions across the UK its would probably pay for a few nurse ,teachers . police offices .
this makes interesting reading
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