Shakira fires back at Spanish tax officials and pleads not guilty just days after moving to Miami
colombian singer shakira The 45-year-old will start a new life in Miami in 2023. After the settlement he reached with his former partner Gerard Piqué Due to custody of their children, the artist will leave Barcelona early next year until the health of his father, William Mebarak, stabilizes.
but before leaving Spain the country in which he lived intermittently to stay with Gerard Piqué, shakira Will once again fire back against Spain’s tax authorities who have long accused her of tax fraud for not taxing her activity as a singer in the country between 2012 and 2014.
penalty imposed by treasury shakira 23 million euros and 8 years in prison. In a statement issued by his lawyers, the artist assured that since 2011 he has paid more than 104 million euros in taxes around the world and claimed by the Treasury to be used for exemplary purposes.
According to the EFE news agency, the document released by the lawyers shakira He assures that “a dirty campaign” was launched against him and only with a “collection effort” so that “despite his innocence, he would plead guilty and come to terms with the charges.”
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eventually, shakira says that the Spanish tax agency has on several occasions used “measures that violate the right to privacy, such as requests from medical centers to obtain confidential information.” The artist pleaded not guilty, saying that “he has scrupulously complied with all his tax obligations in the many jurisdictions with which he has professional relations” and that “he paid taxes worldwide for a global amount of more than 104 million euros”. of which 90 million have been paid to the Spanish Public Treasury”.
