“With the full conviction of her innocence (…) Shakira does not accept an agreement” with the prosecution and “decides to go ahead” with the process, their legal representatives said in a statement in Barcelona, where the singer resides, who was confident “that justice will prove him right.”
Denouncing “a total violation of their rights”, Shakira stated in the statement that “the prosecution has endeavored to collect the money earned in [sus] international tours and in ‘The Voice'”, the American television program in which she was a judge, in a period in which “she was not yet a resident in Spain”.
The interpreter of “Waka Waka” either “Hips Don’t Lie” He recalled that he paid “immediately” the 17.2 million euros (17.4 million dollars) that the treasury claimed and, therefore, considers that “for many years there has been no outstanding debt with the Treasury.”
The prosecution attributes to the Colombian singer and songwriter a tax fraud for 14.5 million euros for the years 2012, 2013 and 2014.
According to your version, Shakira lived in Spain since 2011, when his relationship with the soccer player of the Gerard Pique FC Barcelona, but maintained until 2015 his tax residence in the Bahamas, considered a tax haven. The couple, who have two children, announced their separation last June.
On their side, the lawyers of Shakira allege that until 2014 most of his income came from his international tours and that until that year he did not spend more than six months a year in Spain, the time necessary to consider this country as his tax residence.
In May, a court in Barcelona dismissed an appeal filed by Isabel Mebarak Ripollfull name of the artist, who requested the investigation file.
Shakira appeared on calls Pandora Papersan extensive investigation of millions of leaked documents published in 2021 by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, which indicated that hundreds of personalities had resorted to tax havens, mainly to evade the Treasury.
Source: Ambito
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