While the criminal proceeding against the singer Shakira for defrauding Treasury about 14 million euros follows its course, pending that the court practicing various evidence, the Colombian has achieved a victory against the Tax Agency.
The Economic-Administrative Court of Catalonia, ascribed to the Ministry of Finance, has given the reason for the singer in an open litigation by the liquidation corresponding to the years 2015 and 2016. In particular, Shakira’s attorneys submitted a complementary statement on these exercises
Prosecutors Although the litigation ended up in this body since surcharges were discussed that the tax agency liquidated incorrectly.
In this way, the court considers that the singer should be returned about 300,000 euros that he paid from more after annuling a complementary declaration made before the Treasury in relation to paid taxes.
To adopt its decision, the resolution follows the criterion of the Supreme Court on these economic matters, according to the representatives of the singer, who consider that she had to “pay unjustly” amounts claimed by the Tax Agency.
In this sense, in a statement, Shakira’s legal team “reiterates its full confidence in justice. This fact is a sample that, in a more usual way of what might seem, the courts are contrary to the administration criteria
, even to annul liquidations carried out incorrectly by Treasury “.
In addition, on the appearance of the singer in the so-called ‘papers of Pandora’, in which it is assured that he opened a society in the Virgin Islands when he was fined by Finance, Shakira’s advisors “sintered that societies to which he is
Reference is constituted in 2019 “.
“They are societies that were constituted between 2001 and -as very late- 2009, in accordance with the applicable legislation and much before Shakira was residing in Spain,” they say.
The attorneys of the singer add that “all of them have been duly declared by Shakira to the Spanish tax authorities through the Equity and IRPF tax. With which, they are totally transparent societies.”
They also highlight that “at the time they were constituted with a specific operational purpose, today they do not have income or any activity and, in fact, they are in the process of liquidation.”
