Whether the Premier League La Liga salary is after tax or before tax

For clubs, it is the players' pre-tax wages that need to be considered, as the club needs to bear the expenses including the tax part. For players, how much they really get after paying personal income tax is the fundamental thing worth considering.

Premier League: Before Tax.

As high-level players in Europe's top leagues, many stars undoubtedly belong to the high-income group of their home countries and are subject to a high personal income tax of more than 40%, so it is very interesting to say whether the salary is before or after tax.

Most European countries adopt excess progressive tax rates for individual income tax, with the highest starting point ranging from 70,000 to 300,000 euros. The top stars earn much more than that, so for the sake of ease of understanding and calculation, the maximum tax rate will be applied directly below.

United Kingdom: Effective April 2013, the maximum personal income tax bracket was reduced to 45% from 50%.

As mentioned earlier, Rooney's annual salary before tax of 15.6 million pounds received about 8.58 million pounds, equivalent to about 11.9 million euros. The highest salary in the Premier League is behind only Messi, Cristiano Ronaldo, Ibrahimovic Ibrahimovic, Falcao (with a contract with Monaco) and Thiago Silva among players in the world.

La Liga: Before Tax.

Spain: Effective January 2015, the top personal income tax bracket was reduced to 47% in most regions, up from 52% previously

Spain's personal income tax policy has been constantly adjusted in recent years, with the introduction of a "supplementary tax" in early 2012, which raised the top tax rate from 45% to 52% for annual income above 300,000 euros, but reduced it by 5 percentage points since this year.

At the same time, Spain** and regions** will set different tax rates for different regions, with the highest tax rate in most regions in the previous two years being 52%, while the highest tax rate in Catalonia, where Barcelona is located, was 56%, and the Basque Country, where Athletic Bilbao is located, was only 28%.

In addition, in 2004, Real Madrid President Florentino lobbied the then Prime Minister Aznar, which led Spain to set a clause to reduce the tax on foreign players. The clause stipulates that foreign players who come to Spain to play only need to pay half of the personal income tax for the first five years, which was about 24% at that time. Since David Beckham was the first beneficiary of the Act, it is also known as the "Beckham Act".

However, the law was completely amended in 2011, and any foreign national who has lived in Spain for less than 10 years and earns more than 600,000 euros a year will be required to pay the same maximum level of personal income tax as a resident of Spain. After Keita left Barcelona in 2012, he bluntly said that Barcelona could no longer give him the salary he wanted because the tax rate was no longer preferential, so he chose not to renew his contract.

Hello, it's after-tax.

Spain's economy, although not the best in Europe, has a big advantage when it comes to bringing in foreign players. At the beginning of 2004, in order to attract talent around the world, Spain amended its personal income tax regulations, stipulating that foreign workers can only pay personal income tax equivalent to 25% of their income for the first five years, and the tax rate will be reduced to 24% from January 1 this year. After working in Spain for 5 years, the personal income tax rate for expatriates rises to the same rate as for Spanish residents, 43%.

According to the latest statistics from the internationally renowned accounting firm Ernst & Young, for the same amount of foreign player contract, La Liga clubs will pay 29% less than Premier League clubs, 26% less than Serie A clubs, and 26% less than Bundesliga clubs. The personal income tax rates in France, Germany, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands and Italy are higher than those in Spain, and the various insurance premiums that players have to pay are also low in Spain.

After-tax. If it is before tax, countries like Italy, which have high taxes, have to double.

After-tax. Messi Ronaldo is twenty or thirty million before tax.

Of course, before tax, all before tax, otherwise those famous players in Serie A are shouting for this = an annual salary of seven or eight million, because the tax of Serie A is 100%, and the annual salary can reach more than 7 million, and he can get an annual salary of 3.5 million after tax.

Generally, it refers to the annual salary before tax.

Football players talk about how much after tax, and rarely talk about before tax. Basketball players are pre-tax.

Both the Bundesliga and the Premier League are pre-tax.