Top 10 Premier League Players Who Paid The Most Taxes in 2025
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The Premier League’s 10 Highest Personal Tax Contributors in 2025
We often measure footballers by goals, assists, medals, and legacy, rarely by their contributions away from the floodlights.
Yet the Premier League, with its towering salaries and commercial gravity, also produces another table each year - one written quietly, without chants or ceremonies.
In 2025, these names carried more than form and expectation. Their earnings placed them at the summit of British taxation, turning success into a substantial obligation.
This list does not praise extravagance or performance. It reflects scale. Income at its highest inevitably leaves a deeper imprint on the system beneath it.
Some entries feel predictable. Others surprise. All underline the same truth: elite football in England operates at a financial altitude few industries reach.
Below are the Top 10 Premier League Players Who Paid The Most Taxes in 2025
Rank | Player | Estimated Tax Paid (2025) |
1 | Erling Haaland | £16.9m |
2 | Mohamed Salah | £14.5m |
3 | Casemiro | £10.9m |
4 | Raheem Sterling | £9.8m |
5 | Virgil van Dijk | £9.7m |
6 | Bruno Fernandes | £9.0m |
7 | Bernardo Silva | £9.0m |
8 | Bernardo Silva | £9.0m |
9 | Omar Marmoush | £8.8m |
10 | Gabriel Jesus | £7.9m |
11 | Kai Havertz | £7.9m |
Haaland sits alone at the peak, his scoring power matched by financial weight. Salah follows, a decade of consistency converted into enduring value.
Veterans such as Casemiro and Van Dijk appear alongside creators like Fernandes and Silva, illustrating how influence wears many shapes.
What this ranking ultimately shows is scale rather than spectacle. The Premier League does not merely entertain. It circulates enormous wealth, and through taxation, that wealth returns to the country that stages it.
Trophies fade. Tables reset. Numbers like these linger.
Data Source: The Times (tax figures and estimates)
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