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Follow Shakira's crusade to avoid a tax fraud conviction. The singer's lawyers have presented in the Court of Instruction number 2 of Esplugues de Llobregat a certificate of permanent residence in the Bahamas until 2015, so she

was not living in Spain the minimum of 183 days that the Tax Agency considers between 2012 and 2014

to pay taxes to the Spanish treasury. With this documentation, the singer wants to avoid the penalty for allegedly defrauding 14.5 million euros in those two years as the Prosecutor's Office maintains.

To inform the court, an expert appointed by Shakira's defense and an inspector from the Tax Agency have also appeared, who have jointly declared contrasting the arguments in favor and against the alleged tax crime committed by the singer. In this sense, the Tax Agency inspectors do not recognize the certificate of permanent residence in the Bahamas for tax residence purposes and consider that despite making professional trips around the world between 2012 and 2014,

the singer resided in Spain.

On the contrary, the experts in the defense of the artist point out that the days of sporadic absence, due to concert tours or her participation in the television program 'The Voice' in the United States, should not be counted as time of residence in Spain. The singer explained in her statement that before 2015 she only visited Barcelona occasionally due to her relationship with FC Barcelona footballer

Gerard Piqué.

However, the tax inspectors count that the singer spent more time in Spain in those two years after tracking her social networks, invoices or use of credit cards. The Prosecutor's Office considers that Shakira avoided paying taxes to the Treasury by pretending that she did not reside in this country and hiding her income through a corporate network based in tax havens, with

companies domiciled in the British Virgin Islands, the Cayman Islands, Malta, Panama and Luxembourg

with which he channeled the benefits of his professional activity.

In its complaint, the Prosecutor's Office accuses Shakira and her tax advisor in the United States of six crimes against the Public Treasury and

accuses them of devising a "plan" to not pay personal income tax or wealth tax to the Treasury, using a framework of companies located in tax havens

that were formally the holders of the income it received.

In addition, the complaint indicates that the singer signed agreements with the Luxembourg tax authorities to achieve "specific and privileged tax conditions", when she was already residing in Spain and had the obligation to pay her taxes in this country. In total, the prosecutor estimates at

12.3 million the amount that Shakira had to pay

to the Tax Agency for personal income tax for the years 2012, 2013 and 2014 and at almost 2.2 million the amount that she would have to have paid to the Tax Agency of Catalonia for the patrimony that it had in those years.

Through a statement,

Shakira's defense maintains that today's appearance is "one more step

in a procedure that is still in the investigation phase" and has highlighted her "absolute willingness to collaborate with the judicial and tax authority in the interests of to solve the difference of criteria ".

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