- The Spanish State claims millions in taxes that Shakira would have avoided paying between 2012 and 2014.
- Justice says that “he devised a plan to avoid paying taxes” by hiding his income in companies in tax havens.
- Shakira rejected a settlement and decided to go to trial.
Shakira’s image is hit again in a year that does not seem to be the best for the Colombian singer.
In that case, it is about the trial that is being carried out in Barcelona where she is accused of not having fulfilled her fiscal duties.
After giving up on reaching a potential agreement after weeks of negotiation to reduce a possible sentence, the singer decided to go to trial in the case in which she is accused of defrauding the Spanish State of 14.5 million euros for not having presented , among other things, the settlement of the Wealth Tax.
The argument of Shakira’s lawyers is that she has always shown a “Impeccable conduct, as a person and taxpayer,” the text said.
They ask for 8 years for the singer
In its response, released this Friday, July 29 in Barcelona, the Prosecutor’s Office asks for eight years in prison for the singer Shakira and a fine of almost 24 million euros for crimes against the Public Treasury, as published The world.
In this framework, he must sit on the bench of the accused in a legal process that will take place in Barcelona.
There, the artist must show that she paid everything in 2018, as her lawyers assure. According to another brief presented, she Shakira says that four years ago she paid 17.2 million euros that she was claimed.
The Prosecutor’s Office assures that the singer should have paid taxes in those years in Spanish territory since he resided there for more than the minimum 6 months required by law.
Shakira says she paid taxes on income from her professional activities in the Bahamassince he had his official residence there.
Social networks are proof against Shakira
To argue Shakira’s residence in Spain, the Prosecutor’s Office analyzed their social networksthe use of your credit cards and your purchases of goods.
Among other things, she concluded that in May 2012 she bought a house, rented a recording studio and went to multiple consultations for her pregnancy. All this, in Barcelona.
The Spanish State says that Shakira evaded the payment by pretending that she did not reside in Barcelona and hiding their income with a network of companies located in tax havens such as the Virgin Islands, the Cayman Islands, Malta, Panama and Luxembourg.
She is accused of “devise a plan to avoid paying taxes” hiding their income in companies in tax havens.
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