The Premier League's Tax Avoidance Scandal 

The fact that Shell with an annual revenue of 385 billion $ pays less taxes than the PL players with the PL having an annual revenue of ~ 7 billion $ is the real scandal though x)

Corruption in football!?!? NEVER!

Will never get over the depth of research in your videos. Well done!

Great video as always. I think you should make one about Argentine football and how much of a mess it is right now, there's 28 teams in the first division and the league format was changed mid-season. I think it'd be interesting to highlight it considering that we're currently world champions but have a disastrous league.

Their arguments about why agents should be considered dual representatives don't hold up given, you know, it's not like I can exempt my trade union dues from tax using the same rationale

Love these long format mini-docs that you make, most people would drag them out to such a length but I feel like you could add even more info and still not be boring. Keep it up Alfie

Even just mentioning Luton and agent’s fees gets me twitchy about another points deduction coming our way 😅

As Oliver Kahn said "Premier league is the SUPER LEAGUE"

Those of us who can't avoid tax have no choice but to lose a significant amount of our earnings that we could really do with in the current financial climate. The ones who can exploit these loopholes CAN afford to pay tax but won't. And in a nutshell that's pretty much everything wrong with the world isn't it

Another fantastically researched piece; saying what needs to be said. You are doing the traditions of Kingston upon Hull proud! Radical stuff! Keeping ‘it’ real!

Tax rules are what they are, and it's in a person's or company's best interest to minimize their own liability. Governments put loopholes there on purpose to benefit themselves and their backers/friends/family etc. The fact that they, and the tabloids, tend to focus their ire on footballers is entirely a class issue. I'm pretty sure you've talked about that before. What are the chances that clubs and agents are taking advantage of players in issues like this? Often working class, and focused on football rather than education from a young age. They know the tabloids will eat them up as scapegoats

Premier League already making waves and the new season hasn't even started yet🕊

Hahaha!!!I knew about this but I just could not believe why there are no tax scandals in the corrupted Premier League but thanks to good friend Alfie Potts Harmer for his explanation to this topic,good friends!!!:-D

This must’ve taken ages to research! Thank you for tackling a very dry subject that is very important. Do you think the players actually understand all these tax laws and avoidance measures? I would be very surprised if they were fully aware of what’s going on because it’s extremely complicated. Many regular people cannot understand the cryptic acronyms and numbers on their own paycheck in their own language in their own country. Having said that, I do understand why they are held responsible for anything that has their signature on it. Thank you very much for the video!

Alfie you are steamrolling videos out and I just wanna say THANK YOU, we appreciate you!!!!❤

Love your videos. Always very professional, informative and relatable topics. The educated common man. Keep these creative view topics coming.

Really well made video. I’m not very good when it comes to financial stuff like this, but the way you explained it helped me understand everything you were saying

a documentary of Borussia Dortmund and how they were extremely close to bankruptcy in 2002 time and how Bayern had to save them. The extreme difficulties the club has had to manage within to get back to where they are #thepeopleschannel

I am always amazed at the lengths ungodly rich people will go to to save a bit on taxes. They could easily afford to pay what they should (like the rest of us) and I doubt Neymar or Messi would even feel the loss af an extra 1mill a year.

You have man utd registered in cayman islands, tottenham in bahamas and liverpool in Delaware. How about some investigation into this tax dodging?

This has been one the hardest HITC sevens to watch at one go.😂

Cristiano Ronaldo has literally only ever moved clubs for tax avoidance purposes. He moved to Spain as soon as they lowered their top income tax rate in 2009, then when Spain increased tax on top earners, he immediately moved to Italy who had just reduced their top tax rate, then moved to England to the only club that would agree to his wage demands, and then got off to the depths of society as soon as an opportunity to pay 0% income tax arose.

Fuck yeah Alfie. Seeing a 29min HITC7s video on PL tax fraud as I’m looking for something to listen to while i do laundry>>>

another day another Alfie Banger

Alfie you should really consider doing a video on the Bosnian men's national team, from being ranked 13 in the world in 2014 and qualifying for the World Cup in Brazil, to not qualifying for a single tournament since, yet managing to win their uefa nation leagues group, but genuinely hitting our lowest point with a 2-0 defeat to Luxembourg. Aging players, players who represent other national teams that are eligible to play for Bosnia but aren't seeming interested, just the genuine geopolitical mess that Bosnia is with how the Dayton agreement was meant to simply end the Bosnian war yet became the country's de facto constitution. I think it would make for a very interesting video, and could even span additional videos like how Velez Mostar are forced to play away from their original stadium in Mostar as it is on the Croatian side of the river, with their old stadium being taken over by Zrinjski Mostar. A club that was actually banned in Yugoslavia because of their nationalistic origin.

Fantastic video

The Canadian Soccer Association might be worthy topic for a future video. 3 years away from cohosting the World Cup; the men’s and women’s national may not be able to play in future international windows. The CSA may even go into bankruptcy. Incompetence and soccer/football go together in Canada just like it does in Europe.

Day (lost count): The despot president of Bangladesh Football Federation

A really informative video. I'm gonna download it so I can have it for offline purposes.

I can imagine Alfie's grin at reading "Kompany's company"

9:12 voice break

Please do an episode on Nîmes Olympique. Recently in ligue 1 now in relegated to the third division. Much appreciated🙏🏼

Others have been unalived for lesser journalism

While I think football agents probably deserve to be taxed a decent amount, 60% of their income is preposterous lol. Not surprised they are utilizing a work-around to pay less

Keep up the good work

This may be new to football but it is not new to some industries. The creative industry (actors, directors, writers etc) runs on a similar fashion between the publisher (Paramount, Sony, Netflix etc) and the "contractors" (actors, directors, writers). So if they do go after football players over image rights, then it will become a precedent to all the above. I doubt this can of worms will be opened.

Good stuff Alfie!👍🖖✊️ PS Daniel Farke the Tories...

Be intresting to see same tax stats for efl

Yes, very interesting video this time. Honestly I'm really not interested in many of your other videos like "List of Premier League players with the longest toes" or whatever.

FOOTBALL, CORRUPT ? WHO WOULD EVER HAVE THOUGHT THAT 😂

Yes Alfie, King 👑

So Mancini was paid via a third party firm to skirt profit and sustainability rules that came into effect months after he was sacked?

The agent wouldn't get the amount after tax from the the footballer they would get the full £500k (but it will be after the football has been taxed on it), less vat for their services as they are likely registered as a company. The only difference is between the two situations is that the club could claim it as an expense and reduce their corporation tax. Agent would get the same fees either way

Can you investigate Elche CF director (and football agent) Cristian Bragarnik? He seems to be great at being a football agent, as long as he isn't signing players for the club he owns!

Please someone tell me the name of the background music?

The fact that I paying “only” 30+% in taxes is considered evasion is WILD. They want 60% on a transfer?! 👈THAT is the crime 😂

The best way to short out avoidance, to close all the loop holes and accounting loop holes used to avoid tax, but it will never happen as people writing these laws use the loopholes and accounting methods to also reduce their tax bill. You earn x to pay x no write offs or anything.

I need to get into the agent game

Thanks for this it's motivating me to make money for me and my parents I think we are definitely more deserving then some of these agent's

Do the best position changes ever

Day 37: best XI Brazilians that played for other nations

Kompany’s company 😂

What? They didn't clean the game up since 2010 when Pompey had to be dumped for the dodgy owners the PL decided were fit and proper (whether they existed or not)? I am totally shocked! 😂

Every time a player is sold or bought there will be zero tax on it, when there should be around 20% as usual. Clubs have been doing it for a while, well as long as your in the Premier league...as soon as your in the EFL and try doing the same things, the EFL expect you to pay a "fine", also known as a bribe 🙄

I have to be honest, no matter how much someone earns, the amount of tax that has to be paid to the country is absolutely outrageous. Seriously, F that. And the fact that big companies are paying very little tax to get even richer while employing a lot of people who then pay a lot of taxes on their earnings is...I can't even find words for this. It should be completely illegal. I bet the players of Austrian Wunderteam didn't have to pay so much tax 😇✌.

So are they finally investigating Chelsea?

How the hell does shell pays so less tax?

So the taxman says you can pay less by doing it a different way and you think people are just going to say “NO I WANT TO PAY MORE TAX THAT I DONT HAVE TO” like no it’s not tax avoidance if it follows the tax rules

Thanks was bored❤

off topic but be very careful about using the picture with rishy sunak holding the red briefcase. That picture is heavily copyrighted and picrights will send you an email if you haven't purchased the rights for it

It feels illegal to be this early

Another scandal, what the hell is happening

I mean, if the club pays any part of the agent's fee, shouldn't the agent then pay income tax on that, seeing as it was a payment made by a business (that business then claiming that tax back for exactly this reason)? So if the club pays a player, who then pays the agent, the agent shouldn't pay income tax on that, because that income has already been taxed. That is not the case with any amount paid by a business to that individual.

that story about Gary Cooke email if true is disgusting

However in that you are not counting the tax oaid by the employees of Amazon, Google etc. You have done that with the employees if the premier league though.

Gotta love the Ali Al-farhim fake note being in another hitc video 😂. Shame it’s not Pompey and they’ve added Man City on there

When your government is crooked then so is your revenue streams so football is not alone.

Day 1 of asking for a sunderland documentary

Giovanni brings good memories for Benfica fans ❤

wow

No one is going to feel sorry for the taxman Alfie lol

What even is VAT?

7 buyback clauses that were activated

Ah, the old excuse of... "It's more complicated than that and you are just too stupid to understand" The standard reply for a corporation being caught in a very basic and obvious paper shuffle.

TBH this goes on in every industry at every level. Football is nothing particularly egregious as Alfie said.

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This is some Cheese ⚽️

I have never understood why players don't pay 100% of agents fees, if they want an agent they should pay them surely? Also, I don't care what you believe, when an effective rax raee is over 60%, nobody is going to be honest and pay the full rax, there's hundreds of years of economic history that show people do anything to dodge paying the tax if they can

All that money and they feel the need to skim if the top. Pretty greedy ain't they

Video is over, back to paying taxes!

Okay but explain this to me like I'm 5

Hoping HITC Sevens isn't following their 'avoidance' lead by not paying Getty Images, where footy editorial photos go for around £200-£300 a pop.🤣

That was a cat and rat

Leave Luton alone 😭

The Luton example, sounds a bit ridiculous actually they shouldn't get that much of a million.

Yeah it’s a bit shady and unethical but at the end of the day it’s peanuts next to the bourgeoisie in terms of criminality and sheer amount of money stolen.

Over 100 charges but haven’t been charged with 1 😅 money can’t just make things go away anymore.. this isn’t the 80s when cocaine ran the world.

I thought players just incorporated themselves as companies and had their entourage as business expenses anyway?

Mental health is a get out of jail free card in this country. Its a joke.

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😅you his out the tax on the Agent Company for there turnover for the year on the Club payment as and players remain payment

Big business is a scam? Why I never

6th largest economy in the world? Maybe 15 years ago.😂😂

If the club pay less tax through the scheme and no law is broken and they can claim minimising their tax bill as reason for the agent representing the club there is clear motive for this. The club can pay the agent anything they want because the club gets the player.

The greed of the rich never surprises me! I can’t afford to eat every day! I still pay my taxes!

Didn't understand any of it

Still waiting for the what’s going on at Southend video? Alfie if it helps you do know that the corrupt chairman donates to our two local Tory MP’s!

Day 49 Dream OFC XI all the OFC teams played as one nation in international Football not giving up on this

Ahh HITC sevens standard guy.. *turns speed up to 1.5*

This really just shows how horribly over taxed every one is.