FIFA Paid $4m Toward Infantino’s US Tax Bill, Report Reveals
- In May 2024, a FIFA compensation committee approved covering 100% of President Gianni Infantino's U.S. tax bill, totaling about $4 million over his three-year assignment in Miami.
- Transparency bylaws established a decade ago required public disclosure of top leadership compensation, yet senior FIFA officials expressed alarm the tax benefit was never disclosed, fearing it could curry favor ahead of Infantino's March reelection.
- Committee member Bruno Chiomento approved the perks while receiving VIP World Cup passes and charter flights, and FIFA pays roughly $600,000 annually for Infantino's Miami housing, including a $27 million mansion.
- FIFA relied on personal adviser David Zollinger, Infantino's lawyer, to draft governance policies affecting the president directly; FIFA maintains all processes followed applicable laws, though officials argue the arrangement undermines transparency.
- Infantino faces broader leadership scrutiny following reports in July of secret talks to sell World Cup rights to a company linked to Jared Kushner's brother, prompting global soccer officials to question his suitability to lead the 122-year-old institution.
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FIFA paid $4m toward Infantino’s US tax bill, report reveals
The previously undisclosed arrangement has come to light just two weeks before the deadline for candidates to enter the race against Infantino in the FIFA presidential election this March. FIFA covered US income taxes for Gianni Infantino after the FIFA President relocated to Miami in the lead-up to the 2026 World Cup, according to an […]
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InquirerFIFA quietly paid millions in taxes for its president
A typically dry meeting of the three-person committee that determines the pay of FIFA’s most senior officials was winding down in Bangkok one day in May 2024 when one member brought up what he considered a pressing matter.
Gianni Infantino, 56, is being secretly compensated by FIFA because he moved to the United States. The figures have not been disclosed, the New York Times reports. “To the dismay of several high-ranking executives,” the newspaper writes.
Decision would have been made without transparency, according to documents obtained by the New York Times
Report: FIFA Quietly Covered Infantino's $4M US Tax Bill
FIFA's reform-era plenge of transparency has run into a $4 million question. The New York Times reports that a three-person FIFA committee quietly approved a perk under which soccer chief Gianni Infantino will have his entire US income tax bill covered by the organization through 2026, after his move from...
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