Spain's top level tax rate

[Craig_H]

Gone up to 46%, or so i've heard.

How might this impact on players and their chosen transfer destinations, do we think?

Xabi might as well come back

[Leyton388]

Good. The greedy ****ers will have to pay up now!

[Neil Young]

Isn't the highest marginal tax rate in the UK now 50%?

[Craig_H]

I believe so. Not much in it though.

[Liverpool]

Gone up to 46%, or so i've heard.

How might this impact on players and their chosen transfer destinations, do we think?

Xabi might as well come back

The way Madrid pay their players mean they wont pay nothing like this.

[Neil Young]

I believe so. Not much in it though.

Yeah but all else being even, when you're being paid as much as these guys then 4% is going to be a fair amount of money.

[red g]

Yeah but all else being even, when you're being paid as much as these guys then 4% is going to be a fair amount of money.

yes but on the same hand if i was earning £100,000+ a week I wouldnt give 2 hoots about 4%.

[Craig_H]

Yeah but all else being even, when you're being paid as much as these guys then 4% is going to be a fair amount of money.

By the same token, when you're being paid that much, you're hardly going to miss whatever that 4% equates to.

[Neil Young]

Yeah maybe. But some people are different I suppose. If you're a professional and everything else is the same then you'd go to where you get most money. Very few players play for the team they supported and moving around is part of the job so the kind of emotional 'reasoning' we'd use doesn't apply to footballers all that often.

Still, if it means Alonso comes back then I'm all for it obviously.

[red g]

Yeah maybe. But some people are different I suppose. If you're a professional and everything else is the same then you'd go to where you get most money. Very few players play for the team they supported and moving around is part of the job so the kind of emotional 'reasoning' we'd use doesn't apply to footballers all that often.

Still, if it means Alonso comes back then I'm all for it obviously.

yes but everything else is not the same....I would lose 4% for the climate!!

[Neil Young]

yes but everything else is not the same....I would lose 4% for the climate!!

Good point.

[wiw]

I'm sure Spanish players work around the tax anyway somehow? Can't remember how but I read something on it. Yours, well-informed

[Pablo]

If I had to take a 4% pay cut on what I'm paid to post on Est (it would work out at about a £2,000 paycut) I'd have to think about moving across to a Real Madrid forum or something.

[-V-]

What do you mean Xabi might as well 'come back'? Isn't he already back?

[Baracus]

Gone up to 46%, or so i've heard.

How might this impact on players and their chosen transfer destinations, do we think?

Xabi might as well come back

I mentioned this in the ronney thread IIRC that there was a big chance that the spanish tax rate will increase. However I'm sure there is special dispensation for entertainers in Spain and footballers are classed into it; similar to the very little tax you pay if your a musician and live in Ireland