Le Monde: FIFA Quietly Pays Infantino’s U.S. Taxes as Internal Documents Detail Benefits

Internal documents seen by Le Monde show FIFA has paid all of Gianni Infantino’s U.S. taxes for the past three years and that the president receives financial, tax and material advantages under tailor-made rules. UEFA has demanded details of his pay and tax arrangements, setting a Nov. 2 deadline.

2 Nov 2026

Gianni Infantino, the Italo-Swiss president of FIFA, benefits from financial, tax and material advantages as well as internal rules described as tailor-made, according to unpublished documents that Le Monde said it had accessed. The report says FIFA has quietly paid the entirety of his taxes in the United States for the last three years.

The documents are likely to draw scrutiny from UEFA, which has been in a standoff with Infantino since he announced a plan, ultimately abandoned, to create a commercial company open to private investors.

In a letter dated Monday, Oct. 19, UEFA secretary general Theodore Theodoridis asked FIFA secretary general Mattias Grafström for details of Infantino’s remuneration and his tax contribution, beyond the partial information published in FIFA’s annual reports. UEFA demanded accounting documents and said the questions required answers immediately, could not be postponed until the FIFA council meeting planned for December, and could not be replaced by future governance reforms. The European confederation set a deadline of Monday, Nov. 2.

Sources: Le Monde Sport.