{"id":557343,"date":"2026-03-22T16:35:14","date_gmt":"2026-03-22T16:35:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/557343\/"},"modified":"2026-03-22T16:35:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-22T16:35:14","slug":"png-chiefs-tax-free-salaries-third-party-deals-tax-free-news-sponsorships-new-nrl-franchise-highlights-peter-vlandys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/557343\/","title":{"rendered":"PNG Chiefs tax-free salaries, third-party deals, tax free, news, sponsorships, new NRL franchise, highlights, Peter V\u2019landys"},"content":{"rendered":"

The PNG Chiefs are already able to offer players tax-free salaries to make the move to the new franchise \u2014 and they have another trump card up their sleeve.<\/p>\n

According to the SMH<\/a>, players earnings from third parties will also reportedly be exempt from being taxed as per Australian Rugby League commission chairman Peter V\u2019landys.<\/p>\n

Those deals also will not be included in the salary cap in a huge boost for the PNG club, who are set to enter the NRL in 2028, a year after the Perth Bears.<\/p>\n

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\u201cAny revenue they earn in PNG is tax-free,\u201d V\u2019landys said. <\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s like you\u2019re doing a tax return in PNG, it\u2019s all tax-free.<\/p>\n

\u201cPlaying in PNG will set them up for life. We used to have the Brisbane Broncos as a one-city team. This is a one-country team, where people are fanatical about rugby league.<\/p>\n

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\u201cCan you imagine 10 million people following one team? It\u2019s a monopoly because it\u2019s the only sport that\u2019s played there. <\/p>\n

\u201cPeople don\u2019t realise how big PNG is going to be.\u201d<\/p>\n

If the Chiefs offered a marquee player a salary of $1.5 million, and he earned $400,000 in sponsorships \u2014 the earnings would be equivalent to that of a $3.5 million salary after tax in Australia.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s still a lot of haters knocking PNG, but they have no vision,\u201d V\u2019landys said.<\/p>\n

Third-party deals have been incredibly lucrative for former Storm and Tigers centre Justin Olam, who was reportedly earning $300,000 from deals in PNG at the peak of his powers.<\/p>\n

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Those deals included Samsung and the Papua New Guinea Tourism Promotion Authority among others, while Olam\u2019s manager David Rawlings making it clear there it money to be made.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s a definite opportunity there because of the public interest in rugby league and the corporate support there,\u201d Rawlings said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn particular, there would be lots of local businesses that would like to have some affiliation with the players. Everything in PNG is about having access to rugby league players.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The PNG Chiefs are already able to offer players tax-free salaries to make the move to the new…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":557344,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-557343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nrl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-national-rugby-league","tag-nationalrugbyleague","tag-nrl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=557343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557343\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/557344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=557343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=557343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=557343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}