Learn the rules for football millionaires.

Apart from the obvious reason why many transfers from RPL in the elite leagues over the past decade – the players did not fit the level, there is a financial factor. Not all famous clubs Premier League after the injury of the main attacker need Dziuba, And the average team won’t give Artem all the money they ask for. The top 5 have long had high salaries, but the taxation for the rich varies across Europe and is significantly higher than in Russia. We study the situation in each of the major leagues, because the amounts are cosmic and the information is interesting: they clarify a lot, even by betting on foreigners.

League 1

The tax rate for French citizens in Ligue 1 is incredibly high, socialist – it must be given to the Macron government for a 45% distribution. There are no poor players, the average salary is over 2.3 million euros. But even when a French player plays abroad, like Benzema in Spain, he has to pay 20% of his salary to the French treasury. But for foreigners invited to Ligue 1, they’ve come up with an indulgence. Neymar or Ramos only give away 30%, which allows PSG give the legionaries lower wages, but in their hands they will receive more than the French. The same rule made the sheikhs take a crazy step in the coming summer. According to ESPN and several other prestigious sources, Mbappe’s after-tax base salary is 57 million euros. That’s 4.75 million a month, more than a million a week. It turns out that France will see € 46 million in taxes in one year, simply insane. In addition, Kilian can receive another 300 million euros before taxes in three years with bonuses. Another opportunity for France to get the sheikhs’ money. Unsurprisingly, the young man “caught a star”. Mbappe’s salary is 103 million euros per year before taxes!

A league

There is a lot of talk about how European football is dissolving in the legionnaires and almost half of the artists in each of the top 5 leagues are their own boys. National teams have enough candidates, even if the limits are related to labor legislation. In Italy, where the average salary of footballers is much higher than in France, they also use a progressive scale. If we are talking about a student who has been prescribed a low salary in the first team, he will give the state 23%. Many foreigners will pay the same amount, but for them the rate is much higher – 43%. Plus, that’s still a drop, before they paid just over 46%. That is, Kokorin, with a salary of 1.8 million euros, receives around 1.4 million euros a year in Italy, even if at home he is used to much higher salaries. In Zenith and Spartak he had 2.5-3 million euros a year without bonuses with lower taxes. Apparently, he loves pasta, pizza and good coffee more than money. Or he thinks it now RPL he will not be given € 1.4 million “clean”.

La Liga

In Spain the system was rigid. Even a Spaniard who plays abroad must take 15% home. I immediately wonder if Messi was considered a local or Argentine resident when he was paying taxes? In the latter case, he only gave 24% of his income, but it is unlikely. Most likely, his European passport was taken into consideration, so he paid the whole 52%. As you can see, trendy foreigners are attracted everywhere, offering the best conditions. Now the wealthy Spanish players pay 47% of their salary to the general treasury. At the same time, salaries in La Liga aren’t as crazy as they are in Premier League. Not surprisingly, when Mbappé e PSG tried to feed the version that Perez gave more money than the sheikhs, then everyone in Europe laughed at them. Ronaldo also did not receive € 103 million a year at Real Madrid. Messi also had just under € 100m before taxes, but that insane deal didn’t help Barcelona avoid financial collapse. While that wasn’t the only reason: you have to blame Bartomeu in the first place, he was the one who distributed the club’s money left and right, without calculating the consequences.

Bundesliga

Characteristic of Bundesliga clubs other than not loved by the Germans “Leipzig” familiar to all RPL German, who tried to break the system in detours: foreigners cannot redeem a controlling stake in the German club. Now Oliver Kahn is pushing for the abolition of a long-standing rule, as the law prevents Bayern from pumping as many foreign investments into Bayern as they have pumped into Manchester City or PSG. But a compromise allows German football to avoid financial collapses to the same extent as Italy. German footballers give the state just over 47% of their salary, a lot, but comparable to other taxes for millionaires in European Union. Foreigners pay 25%, even in this case we see relief for citizens of other states.

Premier League

Here it is: the queen of earnings in broadcasting matches around the world. Foreigners give to Premier League only 20% Premier League – a profitable league for legionaries, as there are the highest average salaries. At the same time, it is important to understand that if a footballer has a salary of 5.5 million euros, then in RPL receive one and a half times more money than in Premier League. And he will lose even more in Germany or Spain. This is a brief explanation of why Malcom did not find the club in the top 5, but he remained at Zenit. The irresistible urge to hit the ball often in the direction of Torpedo’s goal wasn’t the main reason, much to everyone’s surprise. And if you come back to Premier League, so the same 45% is given away, i.e. the rate is the same as in France, even if there is a difference. In addition to income tax in France itself, there are huge social contributions. Macron, when he called Mbappé and urged him to stay in Paris, provided France with Qatari money for schools and hospitals, no matter how ridiculous it sounds.

And when you hear that Ronaldo is there Manchester United pay 515 thousand pounds a week (26.8 million a year without bonuses), you know – the local tax authorities only give 20%. Or does it not give? It is necessary to mention the sacred word for all European millionaires: offshore. Businesses in these economic zones are used to evade taxation. For example, the term “image rights” appeared precisely because of the high taxes in football. Since clubs use players in advertisements, they should reward players for doing so. But then you get paid, a salary and you have to pay more than 40% to the treasury in many European countries. But when a football player pre-sold the rights to use the image of an offshore company – for example, Pogba found advertising geniuses on the island of Jersey, where there is a free zone, so for every £ 100,000 , only 19 thousand must be paid, not forty.

Hence the famous tax lawsuits against footballers. Everyone was looking for millions hidden in the bypass schemes of Ronaldo, Messi and many, many others, including Mourinho. Almost all of them made deals with the investigations, those who were dragged to court to testify – on the advice of lawyers, they said they read the syllables and could not count. As you can see, it is much more profitable to be a visitor: in all leagues, the attitude towards the legions is much better in this respect, but the clubs have to stake their own so that they do not leave for another team. or championship. Or isn’t everyone getting paid? There are doubts that Bonucci and Chiellini appreciated De Ligt’s salary. Raiola’s skill recognized e his right hand pumping money from clubs. And they did not understand why the young Dutchman received 8 million euros before taxes, and they were paid much less, even though the legends gave much more to the Italian treasury.