Accordingly, there were “irregularities” in her tax return for 2018. But this is not considered a criminal offense, the court explained. The 47-year-old had no intention of defrauding the tax authorities.
The court followed a recommendation from the public prosecutor’s office in Barcelona, which saw insufficient evidence of Shakira’s guilt. The authorities had launched an investigation because they suspected the pop star of having evaded taxes worth around six million euros through a network of companies based in tax havens. In August last year, the 47-year-old paid 6.6 million euros to the Spanish tax authorities – “to show her willingness to settle possible tax debts,” as her lawyers said.
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The pop singer, who lived in Spain for a long time and is famous worldwide for songs like “Hips Don’t Lie” and “Waka Waka”, paid a fine of more than 7.3 million euros in another case in November. She had previously paid 17.45 million euros for her tax debt in this process.
The suspicion of tax evasion has weighed on Shakira for years. In connection with her former residence in the Bahamas, her name appeared in the “Pandora Papers” in 2021, which revealed the tax avoidance tricks of many, some prominent, multimillionaires. The Colombian has been living in Miami in the USA since last year.
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