Manchester United star Cristiano Ronaldo has topped the list of footballers who pay the most tax in the Premier League after his return to Old Trafford last summer.
The 37-year-old, who has scored 24 goals in all competitions this season including 18 in the league, is comfortably the highest-paid player in the Premier League. The Portuguese superstar is understood to earn around £510,000-a-week on the two-year contract he signed in August 2021.
The veteran star's jaw-dropping wage packet may make the average UK worker green with envy, but earning such extortionate wages comes at a very heavy cost, at least with the taxman. Of the £26.5m Ronaldo rakes in through his gross income, nearly half of that amount goes straight to HM Revenue and Customs.
