What will the French treasury gain from Messi's joining?

Follow-up - INA

If the salary of the Argentine legend Lionel Messi, who will be paid with his new club, Paris Saint-Germain, amounts to between 30 and 35 million euros, net (without the bonus), as revealed by the French media; This means that PSG will have to pay between 10 and 15 million euros in employer fees alone.

As for employee contributions, the amount is estimated between 3 and 5 million euros annually.

Added to this are income taxes, and as a non-resident of France, Lionel Messi will benefit from a tax break of 30% of his gross wages for a maximum period of 5 years.

Thus, it will ultimately pay "only" taxes in the range of €23 million to €24.5 million.

Paris Saint-Germain will have to pay Messi about 12 million euros annually, to the tax authorities, which will be withdrawn from his salary.

These are theoretical sums, as it turns out, given that Lionel Messi's salary will never be officially revealed and that there are some financial arrangements and processes that allow the bottom line to be reduced.

But in the end, Messi's contribution to the French state treasury will still be very large.