Debt before the Treasury that Shakira sings in her new hit with Bizarrap is up to 15.5 million dollars

Beyond his successes as an artist, one of the most important scandals in the career of Shakira It is his lawsuit with the Treasury, in Spain. The Colombian is accused of six crimes and of defrauding that portfolio for a total of 14.5 million euros (15.5 million dollars) between 2012 and 2014.

The singer has declared that she did not reside in Spain during that period, as she assures that she settled fully in that country after the birth of her second child, in 2015.

It should be noted that Shakira has criticized “the methods of that ministry” and assured that she has paid “more than 90 million euros (about 96 million dollars) after being persecuted even for years in which she did not spend even 60 days in that country”.

“The fact that, in its accusation, the Public Treasury is not respecting the legal certainty that must be guaranteed to any taxpayer, nor my fundamental rights, is unacceptable,” Shakira said in a statement published last November.

In addition, the document maintains that his tax conduct is “impeccable and that he has never had tax problems with any other jurisdiction.” Also, the singer criticized the Treasury for using “payments made with a series of credit cards belonging to her team and those close to her” to prove Shakira’s presence in Spain.

Shakira indicated that Spain “represents only 2% of the origin of her world income” and assured that she had reliable data that proves her itinerant life.

Thus, the statement reproaches the Spanish Tax Agency for not having “at all taken into account the modus vivendi of artists whose careers develop internationally” and accused it of turning the oral trial “into a sort of media circus for damage its prestige, as well as using it for exemplary purposes”.

Alleged fraud of 14.5 million euros

According to a judge, Shakira allegedly defrauded the Personal Income Tax (IRPF) -with a total of 12 million 371,197 euros- and the Wealth Tax (IP) -2 million 191,771 euros-, adding between the two a total of 14 million 562,968 euros.

The Instruction found that the artist allegedly stopped paying taxes in Spain in 2012, 2013 and 2014 despite being obliged to do so because, according to the judge, it is where she had her fiscal residence, since she had been in the country for more than 183 days per year. year, while Shakira claims to have resided in the Bahamas.

The Prosecutor’s Office demands a sentence of eight years and two months in prison; the State Attorney accuses him of three crimes against the Treasury in the personal income tax declarations of 2012, 2013 and 2014, and the Generalitat, of three crimes against the Treasury in the declaration of the Wealth Tax of the same years.