The Spanish tax authorities confirmed this to the Colombian singer on Wednesday Shakira defrauded 14.5 million euros to the Treasury between 2012 and 2014, as if it did not reside there Spain and hide their income through a network of companies.
In an additional report on the case, the technicians indicate from Hacienda contradicts the arguments of the interpreter’s defense of “Eyes like this”, who uses her concert and television schedule to try to demonstrate that she has been in less than 184 days. Spain and therefore had no obligation to pay tax in that country, they said Efe legal sources.
Faced with this situation, the magistrate investigating the case called the technicians from Hacienda and in defense of the singer to present their dissertation on what were the tax liabilities of Shakira, as announced today by the newspaper “El Periódico de Catalunya”.
In January last year, two Tax Office officials already testified in court and confirmed themselves in the report that they once sent to the prosecutor’s office to communicate that the artist had evaded the personal income tax (IRPF) payment between the years 2012 and 2014.
Following the report, the Public Prosecution Service filed a complaint against the singer and her tax advisor in the United States in December 2018, accusing them of six crimes against the United States. Hacienda public for devising a “plan” to pay neither personal income tax nor wealth tax, using a network of companies located in tax havens that were formally the holders of the income Shakira received.
In particular, the prosecution states that the singer “channeled the capital movements generated by her professional activity” – her appearances or participation in the US program “The voiceor the commercialization of perfumes with his name, through companies based in the British Virgin Islands, the Cayman Islands, Malta, Panama and Luxembourg.
The prosecutor’s office is of the opinion Shakira He was required to pay his taxes to the Spanish Treasury as he spent more than 183 days in the country, the time it took to obtain the tax resident status of Spain.
Shakira has paid the amount, but does not admit the mistake
Shakira It has already returned the 14.5 million it was claiming to the tax authorities, plus the associated debts and interest, but it insists – and thus held it to the investigating judge when it was subpoenaed as being investigated – that on the analyzed data obligation to honor Spain.
The 44-year-old artist also claims that she is located in Esplugues de Llobregat, a town in the province Barcelona, in 2015, when she gave birth to her second child, who until then only occasionally visited because of her romantic relationship with her current partner, the FC Barcelona footballer Gerard Piqué.
The Colombian women Shakira He claimed in court that his absence was not sporadic, but that he actually lived abroad, as he kept an international concert schedule and took part in the television program “The Voice” in USA. (EFE)
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