By Rob Davies PUBLISHED: 11:25 EST, 29 May 2012 | UPDATED: 13:45 EST, 31 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’.
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Questioned about Greek crisis head of IMF said country can help itself collectively 'by paying all their tax'
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Suggests that IMF's money would be better spent on African children than on people in Athens
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Lagarde takes home £298,675-a-year untaxed
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Receives further tax-free allowance package of £52,000
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