Gérald Darmanin preferred to dodge the question a little, not answering the role he had during the signing of Neymar at Paris Saint-Germain, in the summer of 2017. The Minister of the Interior, visiting this Monday at the Olympic village in the company of Amélie Oudéa-Castéra, the Minister of Sports and Education, is accused of having helped the Parisian club to avoid paying tens of millions of euros in taxes on the amount of the clause release of the Brazilian player.
Then Minister of Public Accounts, Gérald Darmanin, and his chief of staff at the time, Jérôme Fournel, would have, according to an investigation carried out by Mediapartallowed PSG to pay neither tax nor social contributions (estimated, for the Fisc and Urssaf, between 67 and 224 million euros) on the transfer of Neymar, from FC Barcelona, for 222 million euros .
24 million euros in taxes per year
“I am very happy that football or rugby players come to our territory and pay a lot of taxes and charge a lot of revenue taxes,” Gérald Darmanin only indicated this Monday, in comments reported by RMC Sports. If Neymar had not come, no taxes would have been paid, no football shirts would have been sold in his name and no social security contributions would have been collected. »
Between 2017 and 2023, Neymar would have approximately brought in 24 million per year to the State and Social Security in taxes and social contributions linked to his salary.