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Gérald Darmanin spoke about the famous Neymar affair, which is currently causing a lot of discussion.
Faced with suspicions of tax aid on the transfer of Neymar to PSG, the Minister of the Interior Gérald Darmanin spoke with a well-felt little sentence, affirming that the arrival of the Brazilian international allowed France to ‘reap “a lot of taxes”.
“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. 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.declared Gérald Darmanin in comments relayed by RMC from the Olympic village in Saint-Denis.
These words from the minister come in a context of searches at the Ministry of Finance as part of the judicial investigation linked to the transfer of Neymar to Paris Saint-Germain. As a reminder, Tuesday January 16, the president of the Finance Committee of the National Assembly, Éric Coquerel (LFI), asked the government to communicate to him ” as soon as possible » tax documents relating to this transfer.
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