FIFA Paid $4m Toward Infantino’s US Tax Bill, Report Reveals
FIFA will cover 100% of Gianni Infantino’s U.S. tax bill, a benefit expected to total about $4 million by 2026, documents show.
- In May 2024, FIFA's compensation committee approved paying 100% of President Gianni Infantino's U.S. income tax through 2026, with FIFA covering about $4 million in total liabilities by the end of his Miami assignment.
- During a Bangkok meeting, committee chair Bruno Chiomento argued that since FIFA offset tax burdens for staff relocating to the United States for the 2026 World Cup, the same benefit should extend to Infantino.
- Despite transparency reforms mandating public disclosure of executive compensation, documents reviewed by The New York Times reveal the tax arrangement was never reported in filings, alarming senior officials.
- Administrative staff expressed concern the timing could create an impression of currying favor with voting officials ahead of Infantino's March reelection, though FIFA stated all internal rules and taxation requirements were followed.
- This arrangement fits a broader pattern of Infantino securing personal perks with associates' assistance, including roughly $600,000 annual housing and security services from GRIZ Global Solutions, raising questions about compensation committee independence.
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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...
The revelations of the "World" and the "New York Times" made public this Monday, November 2nd highlight the system of taking over the taxes of the president of Fifa in the United States, entirely provided by the world football body.
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