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Chelsea star N’Golo Kante has signed a new £15million-a-year deal which will see him pay more tax than Amazon, it was reported last night.

Kante, 27, snubbed a scheme to get his wages paid through tax saving offshore firms, it was recently revealed in Der Spiegel's Football Leaks series.

The new deal means the French midfielder will pay £6.7million tax, more than Amazon paid last year.

The revelation shames Amazon which uses loopholes to pay the minimum.

The online giant stumped up £1.7million on £79million profits last year.

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Kante could have opted to have 20 per cent of his wages covering image rights paid into a Jersey tax haven.

But he is reported to have refused and insisted everything was above board.

It is alleged that an offshore company was set up for Kante to pay his image rights into.

This tax haven would, it has been claimed, save him around £870,000 a year on his salary.

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But it emerged that Kante refused to be part of the scheme.

Chelsea’s highest-paid player will now shell out £564,000 a month in income tax. He will also pay £305,000 in National Insurance annually.

According to a leaked email, his adviser told Chelsea that the World Cup winner was worried about the use of offshore firms proposed to him.

Amazon cut their 2017-18 tax bill by paying shareholder dividends.

Letter from Martin Brok, President, Starbucks Europe, Middle East and Africa

Dear Sir

Recent reporting by The Mirror in relation to our tax affairs did not accurately reflect the amount of tax paid by Starbucks in the UK and our effective tax rate. We would like to set the record straight.

As our public filings clearly show Starbucks paid £13.7m of tax in the year to October 2017, an effective rate of corporation tax to the British exchequer of 25.3% - substantially more than the UK’s corporation tax rate of 19.5%.

We have acknowledged previous shortcomings in our tax obligations in the past and have taken unprecedented efforts to change that including moving our regional headquarters to the UK.

The Financial Times, who first reported the incorrect statistics, published a letter on 16 November 2018 clarifying this matter.

Regards,

Martin Brok

President, Starbucks Europe, Middle East and Africa