Apparently, Shakira It will continue to be a topic of conversation, since he recently decided to file a lawsuit against the Spanish prosecutor’s office.
defense of Shakira focused on the fact that she was a resident in Spain only in 2015 and, therefore, she did not have to pay taxes from previous years there, when she did not have results, the singer changed her lawyer again and four months later the prosecutors asked her to spend eight years in prison for allegedly “not paying” taxes. The singer’s defense, who appeared in the Esplugues de Llobregat court in Spain, said that since 2011, the singer has paid 104 million euros in taxes worldwide.
In her defense brief against the charges, the singer noted that her “right to privacy” was violated during the prosecution’s investigation.
The Internal Revenue Service is forced to use extremely weak evidence and measures that violate privacy, such as requiring medical facilities to access sensitive information, such as appointments and test results.
The artist’s lawyers criticized the way financial inspectors carried out the investigation. This is because they asked for medical information, they went to hairdressers and beauty centers, places where the singer received treatment on different occasions.
Another way to investigate where he was Shakira At that time it was through his credit card, since this would not be a legal way for the prosecution to detect the whereabouts of the singer.
Unless you have ubiquitous talent, paying with your card simply can’t prove the artist’s presence.
The prosecution accused her of evade 14.5 million euros between 2012 and 2014, pretending that he did not live in Spain.
The tax office confirmed that Shakira spent 183 days or more in Spain between those two years, the legal standard for a person to be considered a tax resident, after which the Ministry of State asked for a prison sentence of eight years and two months, as well as the payment of a additional fine of 23.7 million euros.
The defense Shakira It is now in charge of the Barcelona criminal lawyer Pau Molins, which marks the third change of lawyers since the dispute began.
In a letter to which EFE has had access, the singer confirms that the Treasury has “an excessive effort to collect taxes”, since of the $104 million that it paid worldwide, $90 million were in Spain.
Due to his arguments about his occupations, in addition to his social assistance work with organizations such as Fundación Pies Descalzos or Acción por la Solidaridad Latinoamérica, the defense argued that the prosecution’s accusations were simply subordinated to the need to instrumentalize the singer.