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Shakira's Tax Fraud Case: "Innocence Will Be Proven"
Shakira is maintaining her innocence.
The "Hips Don't Lie" singer, 45, precocious slammed her ongoing taxation fraud case wherever she has been charged with tax evasion for allegedly not paying millions of dollars portion surviving successful Spain.
"Because I person to combat for what I believe; because these are false accusations," she told Elle in the publication's October screen story. "First of all, I didn't walk 183 days per twelvemonth astatine that clip astatine all. I was engaged fulfilling my nonrecreational commitments astir the world. Second, I've paid everything they claimed I owed, adjacent earlier they filed a lawsuit. So arsenic of today, I beryllium zero to them."
As Shakira noted, "I was advised by 1 of the 4 biggest tax specializer firms successful the world, PriceWaterhouseCoopers, truthful I was assured that I was doing things correctly and transparently from time one. However, adjacent without grounds to enactment these fictional claims, arsenic they usually do, they've resorted to a salacious property run to effort to sway people, and use unit successful the media on with the menace of reputational harm successful bid to coerce colony agreements."
The vocalist further said that the "Spanish taxation authorities bash this often" to both celebrities and "unjustly to the regular taxpayer." However, she believes that she has "enough impervious to enactment my lawsuit and that justness volition prevail successful my favor."
E! News has reached retired to the Spanish taxation authorities and has not heard back.
In 2018, Spanish prosecutors charged the Grammy victor with taxation evasion, accusing her of not paying up to 14.5 cardinal euros (about $14.7 million) successful taxation income betwixt 2012 and 2014.
According to the Associated Press, prosecutors allege that Shakira was mostly surviving successful Spain during that clip period, though the singer's authoritative residence was listed successful the Bahamas, per an probe by The Guardian. (By law, individuals are considered Spanish residents if they walk much than 183 days successful Spain during a calendar twelvemonth oregon if the state is the halfway of their economical interests.)
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A root adjacent to Shakira told E! News successful 2018 that she "did not reside successful Spain longer than 183 days" betwixt 2012 and 2014 and that she declared herself a taxation nonmigratory of Spain successful 2015.
"As soon arsenic Shakira spent much than 183 days successful Spain successful a fiscal year," the insider shared, "she took the inaugural to state herself a taxation nonmigratory successful Spain and wage taxes successful this country."
Additionally, the root said that the "Whenever, Wherever" singer had "already paid the monies that are allegedly deemed owed by the Tax Agency and, therefore, presently owes thing to the Spanish state."
In July 2022, Reuters reported that Shakira rejected prosecutors' connection to settee her taxation fraud case and it volition present caput to trial, a rep for the vocalist confirmed.
At the time, the rep told E! News that Shakira "has ever cooperated and abided by the law, demonstrating impeccable behaviour arsenic an idiosyncratic and a taxpayer, and faithfully pursuing the counsel of PriceWaterhouseCoopers, a prestigious and globally recognized taxation firm."
The rep past called the lawsuit against the singer "baseless," adding, "Shakira is confident that her innocence volition beryllium proven by the extremity of the judicial process."
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