wayne rooney Mr Cameron, Wayne Rooney!

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I think I feel slightly sick! Tax him, tax his club, greedy little man.

As you were.

I suspect it has more to do with the fact that Man U can sell him for much more at the end of the season now. Protecting their investment, what's wrong with that?

I'd imagine Mr Rooney pays income tax at the usual rates required for a top 1% earner (shortly he will have no personal allowance and will pay 50% tax on his earnings over £150K), and his club pay corporate taxes as required.

Do you actually think he doesn't pay tax? Or Man U?

I mean I actually depise the Rooneys and all things Premiership football, but the OP is ridiculous.

He'll be paying more tax than I am, that's for sure!

He probably pays more in tax in a week than I earn in a year.

no doubt he's employed someone to find the tax loopholes for him[

Tax avoidance through use of legal means, allowances etc is perfectly legal and acceptable. He'll still be paying an absolute fortune.

Tax evasion is illegal. Do you really think the accounts of high profile people aren't looked at in minute detail? HMRC has an entire unit which looks after and into the tax affairs of the very wealthy, very famous and other politically sensitive persons (like MI5 employees for example).

just because tax avoidance is legal doesn't mean I have to agree with it, just like I don't agree with the OP on a nother thread who is doing nothing wrong legally but has chosen to cut his hours and claim more benefits.

OP, what leads you to believe that Rooney and Man Utd are not already paying taxes?

No you don't have to agree with it, but the sentiment expressed in the OP suggests that Wayne Rooney doesn't already pay tax, which is nonsense.

I know he pays tax, and I appreciate that Man U pay tax too, am not a total divvy (most of the time ) but it still makes me feel urgh with the fact that the country is in "austerity" mode and he is doubling his income after having a minor hissy fit. I am probably not that good at my job (but then am not sure that he is so brilliant at his all of the time) and expect it would be given to someone else if I demanded double my salary!

Perhaps I am just jealous, or perhaps i am just ridiculous Georgi

Perhaps you are.

Your position reminds me of the Wilt Chamberlain paradox identified by Robert Nozick.

Wayne Rooney will pay an absolute fortune in tax as it is.

yes he will pay a fortune in tax but he also earns a fortune. in fact such a fortune that it would probably be impossible to spend it all in the same week as he earns it.

agreed it is silly money, you are not jelous, it is just silly money. no human needs that much money. it seems the simple answer is to tax people earning silly money more. not the same 50% as someone on £150k per year, but a lot, lot more. if he was taxed at even 60 or 70%, he wouldn't suffer one bit and would still be richer than most.

No, he'd go and work for InterMilan or Barcelona or some other foreign club and live in a country which didn't tax him at 70%.

Perhaps my op should have said "anyone else feel slightly nauseated by the significant increase in Wayne Rooney's pay packet?" but perhaps the sleep deprivation kicked in prior to thinking about the actual op.

It isn't just Rooney that I feel that way about he is just in the firing line today , isn't £50 million or £200,000 per week (more than many company managing directors earn - bankers excluded obv as they seem to just earn unrealistic sums too) just a bonkers amount of money to earn for anyone per week? Of course it would be nice (dreaming of first class holidays, no mortgage and endless amounts of plastic surgery I could have............) but don't you think it sends out the wrong message to people on a normal level? His way of going about it doesn't seem to have made him many friends either, or perhaps it was a Man U publicity stunt.

On a slight tangent Georgi, I thought I was wayyyyyyyyyy to "conservative" to have any sort of anarchist/state/utopia views, for some reason it has made me feel quite rebellious

oh, and you cant argue the 'brain drain' theory with Rooney-so don't even try!

And I don't spend every penny of my wages in the month I earn them. Does that mean I must be so wealthy I should pay 70% tax?

Christ the inner workings of some minds are a scary place.

I think taxes are wrong and unfair-yes.

Yes you can argue the brain drain with Wayne Rooney, you can argue it with anyone who has portable, internationally valued skills, even if those skills are kicking a football.

and it wont just be what he earns from his football club. its tv appearances, royalties, adverts etc etc. add on those too... yep, 70%.

fine, then go to Milan. byee. there will lots of other boys willing to play as well, if not better for less and happy to contribute to the country that raised them and brought them their fortune.

Rooney is paid what the market deems he is worth and if United had put him on the transfer list there would have been no shortage of clubs around Europe that would have wanted him.

Georgi - apparently Coleens mum wouldn't let him leave Manchester so perhaps he wouldn't have although that doesn't work for everyone!

It has been proven over and over again that as tax rates rise tax revenues fall.