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Bulgaria Tax Officials Happy with Top Footballers Probe

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Bulgaria's National Revenue Agency have checked the property and bank deposits of more than 70 top flight football players for suspected tax evasion and claim the probe is yielding results.
“There is not a single highly paid player, who declare the minimum salary of BGN 220,” Krassimir Stefanov, head of the Revenue Agency, said on Friday. “Some of them even declare incomes as high as BGN 50,000 per month.”
The garrulous wives of Bulgarian footballers, who are more than happy to talk about the luxurious life they lead, are believed to have prompted government officials to investigate top soccer players for suspected tax evasion at the end of last year.
The tax officials were impressed by the players' wives TV appearances, in which they don't miss to brag about the expensive cars of their husbands and all the possessions they have.
The National Revenue Agency announced a total of 261 Bulgarian top flight football players are under scrutiny for suspected tax evasion.
The action is a follow-up to previous checks of players and top flight clubs that revealed millions of levs of unpaid taxes and social securities.