The Spanish tax agency confirmed on Wednesday that the Colombian singer Shakira he defrauded the Treasury of 14.5 million euros between 2012 and 2014, claiming he did not live Spain and hiding their income through a network of companies.
In an additional report on the case, the technicians from Hacienda contradicts the arguments of the “Eyes Like These” performer, who is practicing his concert and television program to try to show that he Spain and therefore were not required to pay taxes in that country, they informed Efe legal sources.
Faced with this situation, the magistrate investigating the case called the technicians from Hacienda and the singer’s defense to present her thesis about what her tax obligations were Shakira, as reported today by the newspaper “El Periódico de Catalunya”.
In January last year, two officials of the Tax Agency already testified before the judge and reaffirmed themselves in the report they once sent to the Prosecutor’s Office to communicate that the artist evaded the payment of Personal Income Tax (IRPF) between 2012 and 2014.
Following the report, the Prosecutor’s Office filed a complaint against the singer and her tax advisor in the United States in December 2018, accusing her of six offenses against Hacienda to develop a “plan” to pay neither personal income tax nor wealth tax, using a network of companies based in tax havens that were formally the holders of the income Shakira received.
Specifically, the Public Ministry claims that the singer “channeled the capital movements generated by her professional activity” – performance or participation in the US program “The voice“Or the sale of perfumes under his name, through companies domiciled in the British Virgin Islands, the Cayman Islands, Malta, Panama and Luxembourg.
The prosecutor’s office considers that Shakira He was obliged to pay his taxes to the Spanish Treasury, as he stayed in the country for more than 183 days, the time necessary to acquire the status of tax resident in Spain.
Shakira paid the amount, but does not admit guilt
Shakira He has already returned to the Tax Agency the 14.5 million he requested, plus the corresponding debts and interest, but insists – and thus kept them before the investigating judge when he was called as investigated – that he did not the obligation to pay tribute in Spain.
The 44-year-old artist also claims to have settled in Esplugues de Llobregat, a town in the province Barcelona, in 2015, when she gave birth to her second child and who until then made occasional visits only due to her romantic relationship with her current partner, the football player FC Barcelona Gerard Piqué.
Colombian women Shakira He claimed before the judge that his absences were not sporadic, but that he actually lived abroad, as he maintained an international concert program and participated in the television program “The Voice” in United States of America. (EFE)
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