N’Golo Kante fought off tax tricks on the Blues after joining Chelsea FC in the summer of 2016 and thus gave up a lot of money. This is the conclusion of a report by the news magazine Spiegel in the course of the Football Leaks publications.
Accordingly, Chelsea had come to Kante with the proposal to pay part of its salary as a fee for personal image and marketing rights to an offshore company set up specifically for this purpose in a tax haven. Kante thankfully refused to pay all taxes lawfully with the declaration.
As the British newspaper Mirror now reports, Kante has to pay around 6.7 million pounds a year for taxes – more than, for example, the US online mail order company Amazon last year. Since its contract extension in November 2018, it has earned around £15 million a year.
Kante could have saved nearly 870,000 pounds a year if he had responded to Chelsea’s suggestion.
