What do you mean subsidizing? How much less people would visit Turin if it wasn't for Juventus? Foreign investors like Comisso, Friedkin, Sunig or Elliott wanting to build new stadiums for their clubs is subsidizing? You need to have an attractive product if you want to bring in sponsors. The tax rule helped to create the attractive product faster and cheaper. You need to have some patience though to wait before it bears fruits.
The tax cut we are having a conversation about? every business pays tax on salaries, from shops to companies, to football clubs. The government subsidizes the payroll tax of football clubs signing foreigners for multi million contracts. How many people would visit Turin without Juve? since when does Juve's existence depend on this subsidy? we have been around for over 100 years, not 3 since the tax cut was implemented.
If it's such sound economic policy then why don't we see the rest of the EU, France, Germany, Poland, Spain, etc. following suit?
Governments are trying to find funds from every corner to try to keep things afloat at the moment, maybe not subsidizing half of these huge contracts in top football handed out to obtain a competitive advantage is not something to be outraged about.
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Rabiot and Ramsey got their fat salaries because they were free agents. It was the same with Can, Khedira etc. It was a business risk that the club decided to take. It's the same with all the transfers. Be it Hazard to Madrid or Van Dijk to LFC, some of them pay off and some of them don't.
Yeah no. The new tax cuts allowed us to sign foreign players with huge net wages, without blowing up our finances because we pay less tax on it.
Rabiot and Ramsey are tied as the 7th players most paid in the league. Why? because paying them this costs less to Juve than to pay it to residents.
In fact, for Juve, 4 of the top 5 earners were signed under these tax cuts. The club didn't "save the money and invest it into the country". Ronaldo, De Ligt, Rabiot, and Ramsey are 4 of our top 5. Only Dybala is outside the new tax regime in the top 5. It's the same for Inter. Their top 5 has Lukaku, Eriksen, Sanchez and Vidal. It's not about Bosman transfers, it's about being able to offer more money to the player.
Italy becoming a tax haven in football is controversial enough outside of a pandemic.