Courts Shakira accelerates a judicial agreement for her fraud to the Treasury to leave Barcelona
Rupture What Shakira and Piqué said the last time they spoke in public about each other
Miami Shakira's house that she tried to sell for 9.5 million and where she could live if she leaves Barcelona
A few days ago, the lawyers of the singer Shakira went to the Prosecutor's Office to desist from reaching a possible agreement after weeks of negotiation so that his sentence could be reduced.
The artist assured that her judicial process for
defrauding the Treasury of 14.5 million euros
by not presenting the liquidation of the Personal Income Tax and the Wealth Tax of 2012, 2013 and 2014 was a "total abuse" of her rights, "since always He has shown impeccable conduct, as a person and as a taxpayer, and a full willingness to settle any difference from the start."
However, the response from the Prosecutor's Office has been forceful and in its qualification letter it asks for 8 years in prison for Shakira and a fine of almost 24 million euros for these four crimes against the Public Treasury.
For this reason, she must sit on the bench in a trial that will be held in the coming months in Barcelona and in which the singer must demonstrate that "for many years there has been no pending debt" with the Tax Agency, as indicated in a statement. A few days ago, since shortly after the criminal process began in 2018, he paid 17.2 million that were claimed.
The Prosecutor's Office maintains that the Colombian singer allegedly
did not present the liquidation of the Personal Income
Tax (IRPF) and Wealth Tax (IP) corresponding to 2012, 2013 and 2014, which caused economic damage to the Treasury of 12, 3 million for personal income tax and 2.19 million for wealth tax to the Agència Tributària de Catalunya.
The accusation considers that the singer had to pay taxes in Spanish territory since she lived in the country for more than the minimum six months established by law, although the artist assured that this was not the case, despite the fact that it was when she began her relationship with the FC Barcelona player Gerard Piqué, and that he paid taxes on the income from his professional activity in the Bahamas since he had his official residence.
To argue this presence of the Colombian singer in Spain, her social networks, bills or use of credit cards were tracked.
In addition, the Court of Instruction 2 of Esplugues, which investigated the complaint of the Prosecutor's Office, concludes that in May 2012 Shakira bought a house and began to work on it, rented a recording studio for a year and followed up on her pregnancy in a clinic in Barcelona.
The Prosecutor's Office considers that Shakira allegedly evaded the payment of 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, such as the British Virgin Islands, the Cayman Islands, Malta, Panama and Luxembourg. with which he channeled the benefits of his professional activity.
For this reason, he accuses the singer of concocting a "plan" to avoid paying either personal income tax or wealth tax to the Tax Agency, hiding her income in these companies in tax havens.
In the midst of the separation process with the Barcelona defender and while trying to reach an agreement on the couple's children, since the mother wants them to live with her in Miami, the singer will have to return to the city to face this trial that will undoubtedly It will generate a high media impact.
For the moment, Shakira was clear in stating what she thinks of this accusation: "The Prosecutor's Office has insisted on collecting the money earned on my international tours and on "The Voice" when I was not yet a resident in Spain, and they have resorted to media unduly to pressure, as they do daily and unfairly with thousands of taxpayers for profit.
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