Messi, Ronaldo, Mourinho and Neymar are behind many of the football stars, and nearly 200 players from the Premier League alone have been investigated or will be prosecuted for tax evasion.
The whole story begins with what is known as the rights of the images, namely the rights of the income of the players from the commercial use or promotion of their pictures or their name, where the players followed smuggler seemingly legal but the details proved otherwise, because it created a fictitious company in a place exempt from taxes, Give them the right to sell the images, so all the rights to sell the pictures become tax-free.
The legal game started before 2008 and did not cause any fuss, but the players used it more. They were willing to accept a lower salary, in exchange for full rights to their pictures or high percentages of them, that is, they get more money through tax evasion. Clubs are happy to reduce your bills.
The last story in Spain, years ago, was reported by media outlets as having begun because of a good actor. This actor, as I was assured by journalists working there yesterday, was also a player who was brought to investigate before the case came to Lionel Messi. A deal, which reveals the details of the legal game, and the names that coordinate the task, in exchange for the end of his case in silence, and this is what happened.
"The company that owns the rights of their images is not a name, it must be proved that it is not fictitious by proving that it has activities Different business away from being just a company owned by a player and selling only the same pictures. "
And the press has two faces; a bad face is thrown with all the chaos and fights with the surrogates to create more excitement, and the face of scientific work, progresses and writes even if not read only a few, but few may be the source of the beginning of a story, and perhaps this is what the English press did despite her love to weave stories Imagination in the transitions, but they do not do so in serious matters.
Before the case began to crystallize in the media, there was an article by Ian Coy in the telegraph newspaper in early 2011, in which he talked about how players use photo rights to reduce their tax payments, drawing on expert opinions, and then joined the Times and Daily Mail with some reports, Official authorities, moving away from bureaucratic paper ideas, to get the rights of citizens and not the state of the taxes of wealthy stars.
The media movement there, the pressure to refuse any dealings with the players, made nearly 200 players in the Premier League under investigation, many of whom began to settle their taxes and pay, a matter that gradually spread to Spain. The authorities realized there was a right to claim money. This evasion and recognition of the past, we will probably see the proliferation of other countries soon.