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• Questioned about Greek crisis head of IMF said country can help itself collectively 'by paying all their tax'
• Suggests that IMF's money would be better spent on African children than on people in Athens
• Lagarde takes home £298,675-a-year untaxed
• Receives further tax-free allowance package of £52,000

By Rob Davies
PUBLISHED: 16:25 GMT, 29 May 2012 | UPDATED: 22:31 GMT, 29 May 2012



Laughing all the way to the bank: IMF managing director Christine Lagarde criticised beleagured Greeks for not paying taxes, while she earns a tax-free salary herself


The head of the International Monetary Fund enjoys a tax-free income of £350,000, it emerged yesterday – days after she attacked Greeks for failing to pay their taxes.
Christine Lagarde provoked a furious backlash after blaming Greece’s economic plight on citizens ‘who are trying to escape tax all the time’.
Now it has been revealed that the divorced Frenchwoman, 56, earns a salary of £298,926 which her contract states ‘shall be net of income taxes’.
Part of this is paid for by British taxpayers, as the UK contributes 4.5 per cent of the IMF’s resources. This equates to about £13,500 of Mrs Lagarde’s basic wages.
The IMF also pays Mrs Lagarde a top-up tax-free sum of £53,490, designed ‘to enable the Fund’s leader to maintain, in the interests of the Fund, a scale of living appropriate to your position as managing director and to the Fund’s need for representation’. In addition, she is entitled to expenses for ‘entertainment’ and travel and hotel costs for her and her partner when the IMF meets in Washington DC.
Her five-year contract also entitles her to a pay increase every July.
Greek-born economist Vicky Pryce said many people in her home country were astonished by Mrs Lagarde’s hypocrisy. ‘There has been a lot of comment about the irony of the situation,’ she said.
Imposing: The headquarters of the IMF in Washington is where representatives of 184 countries aim to work together to foster global monetary cooperation and secure financial stability

She added that Mrs Lagarde had not grasped the true nature of the problems facing the eurozone. ‘If people paid the tax they were due to pay it would make hardly any difference,’ she said.
Tax expert Richard Murphy said Mrs Lagarde’s comments were ‘so insensitive’.

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‘How can someone who is living tax-free, way beyond the means of the Greek parent who can’t feed their children, say “tough, you’re living in austerity, you’ve got to keep us happy”?’ he asked.
He said many Greeks are now withholding their taxes as they believe the country is being run by the IMF instead of an elected government.
A spokesman for the IMF said Mrs Lagarde ‘pays all taxes levied on her, including local and property taxes in the US and France’, adding: ‘Fund salaries, like those in most international organizations, are paid on a lower, net-of-tax basis to ensure equal pay for equal work regardless of nationality.’






Contributors: Christine Lagarde earns more than both Barack Obama, left, and David Cameron, right
At the weekend Mrs Lagarde suggested Greece only had itself to blame for its financial situation. She said Greeks could ‘help themselves collectively’ by paying their taxes. ‘I think more of the little kids from a school in a little village in Niger who get teaching two hours a day, sharing one chair for three of them, and who are very keen to get an education . . . because I think they need even more help than the people in Athens,’ she added.
Asked if Greeks were experiencing payback for years of bad practices, she said: ‘That’s right.’ She later sought to clarify her remarks, insisting she had been largely referring to the wealthy. The hurried explanation came after a furious response in Greece, criticism from French politicians and a stream of abuse on her Facebook page.
Addressing critics on the social network, she said she was ‘very sympathetic to the Greek people and the challenges they are facing’.
‘That’s why the IMF is supporting Greece in its endeavour to overcome the current crisis,’ she added. ‘An important part of this effort is that everyone should carry their fair share of the burden, especially the most privileged and especially in terms of paying their taxes.’
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[Nfxutkpa]

Her, and up until 2008, Turbo Tax Timmy.

[oxinsnepe]

Yet ANOTHER globalist administrator who is also a hypocrite. What a surprise.

[lionsiy]

Taxes and austerity for thee but plunder and splendor for me!!!

[86GlSqSK]

The story is that IMF, really do prefer to pay for African blow jobs, I think it is called the Strauss-Kahn doctrine after her predecessors dedicated work in the field...

[deermealec]

IMF needs to be burned to the ground.

[primaveraloler]

IMF needs to be burned to the ground.

If (non-state sponsored) terrorists were real, this would have happened 20 years ago.

[royarnekara]

IMF needs to be burned to the ground.

If FRN's that flowed to them from the fedgov stopped, they would burn down on their own.

[9TWSg835]

She's small potatos @ a mere $300K. That's nothing compared to the raping going on off the books. At that income, she hardly qualifies to be a Bilderberg member. LOL.

[86GlSqSK]

She's small potatos @ a mere $300K. That's nothing compared to the raping going on off the books. At that income, she hardly qualifies to be a Bilderberg member. LOL.

You don't become the IMF director for the salary. You do it because you want to screw the world! Official income is not the reason for being invited to the Bilderbergers, it is the power you wield that is important. I bet that Lagarde was invited prior to her IMF position, and she may even have gotten the nod from there... Strauss-Kahn no doubt pissed off a sizable part of the elite, and that is the very reason he got outed. No doubt he is a punk asshole, but he got outed for another reason!

[casefexas]

Yet ANOTHER globalist administrator who is also a hypocrite. What a surprise.

is she J-J-J-J-J-J-J-J-J-J-J-J-J-J-J-J-J-J-J-J-J-J-J-J-Jewish ?