King
Juan Carlos
will not return to
Spain
this week to participate in the
Sanxenxo
regattas , as was his initial intention.
This is a prudent decision, a consequence of the long conversation that the
Emeritus
had on his recent visit to our country with his son,
King Felipe
, who has asserted his authority in a matter that directly affects the image of the institution. which embodies.
The first trip of
Don Juan Carlos
to his homeland after almost two years was full of excesses and
of factors incompatible with the action criteria that
don philip
, just assume the
head of state
, imposed on all members of the
Royal family
in order to raise the bar of exemplarity in the monarchy to the maximum.
And for all this it is logical that from
Operetta
it is desired that the future visits of Don Juan Carlos take place in a climate of greater discretion and in accordance with the principles that govern in
the crown
, even though he no longer plays any institutional role or receives any official assignment.
Faced with his change of mind, the former monarch argues "private reasons."
And, as EL MUNDO advances today, among them would be the new information requirements that the
Tax agency
for large gifts linked to hunts between 2014 and 2018, an issue that would be complicating his return to Spain.
We are talking about the period after his abdication -it occurred in June 2014- and, therefore, he was no longer protected by inviolability.
Tax authorities
Now it requires him to justify who paid for the flights and the expenses to go to the hunts under the magnifying glass.
Don Juan Carlos has carried out two tax regularizations in recent years, one of almost 700,000 euros corresponding to a tax debt from the years 2016 to 2018, and another of more than four million for undeclared income from payments in kind.
Now there are doubts regarding the tax regulations that would affect him since his expatriation, in August 2020. Because, on the one hand, according to the literal wording of the agreement in force between Spain and
Arab Emirates
to avoid double taxation, you cannot be considered a tax resident in
Abu Dhabi
where he has lived ever since.
But, on the other hand, it is there where he has his domicile "permanently and stable", and he wants to continue like this "for reasons that belong to my private sphere and that only affect me", as he stressed in the statement he made public in March when the Supreme Prosecutor filed the preliminary investigations that affected him.
Who has been for almost four decades our
Head of state
-with an outstanding political legacy, something that cannot be denied no matter how sectarian those who try to overthrow the constitutional system try- must have the
maximum scruple in complying with its tax obligations
.
Also for the good of the Crown that King Felipe strives so hard to provide it with maximum transparency.
It is to be hoped that this new front will be clarified and resolved quickly.
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