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Originally Posted by Itse
Well officially they should. However, there is so much rumours going around that KHL players don't need to pay taxes that I'd need to hear it from some players to think that it doesn't happen.
As I said, KHL is a nationalist sports project and one of Putins pet projects. Laws don't necessarily apply.
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While nobody knows for sure what goes on under the table, I didn't find any rumours in russian web about not paying taxes for official contract figures (undertable payments is another issue). I only saw it in NA sources. In several russian articles I saw that usual 13% taxes apply,and it is just mentioned as common knowledge. Particularly, during the Zinovyev contract dispute it was reported that Ak Bars was paying all the taxes alright on Zinovyev's salary (
http://sportweek.ru/swxokkey/111-ahbars in russian). However, this 2008 year interview by Barys's president
http://www.sports.ru/hockey/5992660.html claim that often clubs are doing undertable payments to their players to avoid taxes. 2 days after it he had to completly withdraw those statements after KHL and public reaction though. Nonetheless, KHL clubs do fully pay taxes for official contracts. There may be undertable payments though. Which is, in fact, fairly common in Russia, as I was receiving such undertable untaxable payments in 2 out of 4 jobs I had in my life. This has nothing to do with Putin, nationalist project and such though.