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Music Legal: Shakira Hips Don’t Lie, But Her Accountants Might UPDATE: Facing up to 8 years

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Shakira’s Hips Don’t Lie, But Her Accountants Might
By Bethy Squires
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Shakira has been charged with tax evasion in Spain. According to The Independent, the singer may owe more than $16 million in back taxes. From 2012-2014, Shakiraspent most of her time in Spain with her partner, soccer player Gerard Pique. But she listed her residence as a private island in the Bahamas, which she purchased in 2011. In related news, Shakira owns a fucking island. Perhaps she bought it in order to house gene splicing experiments and create a real life She Wolf: half Woman, half Wolf. But probably it was because the Bahamas’ tax rate is way lower than that of Spain. Shakira’s alleged tax sheltering was discovered in the 2017’s “Paradise Papers.” A representative has denied all wrongdoing, and is accusing the Spanish government of using her to scare other taxpayers. Which feels unnecessary when they could have just printed out the lyrics to “Objection (Tango).”

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The Plutonian said:
they say she worth 200+ to 300 million. I'd get someone to to cut this down to a quarter of what they say then :yawn: Shit always amazes me how rich people don't want to pay fucking taxes:smh:
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the super wealthy look down on people who pay taxes they just know better to express it..

one bitch did back in the eighties, ol super wealthy hag who owned the world trade center said taxes are for little people...

they tried to give her a slap on the wrist for sayin it, but even that was laughable...
 
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Mrfreddygoodbud said:
the super wealthy look down on people who pay taxes they just know better to express it..

one bitch did back in the eighties, ol super wealthy hag who owned the world trade center said taxes are for little people...

they tried to give her a slap on the wrist for sayin it, but even that was laughable...
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Shakira opens up about why she's fighting her tax evasion case in Spain: 'It's a matter of principle'

"I'm confident that I have enough proof to support my case and that justice will prevail in my favor," Shakira said of her decision to fight her tax fraud case in Spain.
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Shakira reveals why she's fighting her tax evasion case in Spain: 'It's a matter of principle'

"I'm confident that I have enough proof to support my case and that justice will prevail in my favor," the international pop icon said in a recent interview.
By Lester Fabian BrathwaiteSeptember 21, 2022 at 10:56 PM EDT




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Shakira may be in the "darkest hours" of her life but she's fighting her way to the light.
In a new interview with Elle magazine ahead of releasing her first album of new music in five years, the singer addresses the tax fraud case brought by the Spanish government threatening her with up to eight years in prison.
"I'm confident that I have enough proof to support my case and that justice will prevail in my favor," Shakira said of her decision to fight her tax fraud case in Spain.

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Shakira had rejected a settlement offer, the details of which had not been disclosed, sending the tax fraud case to trial. She was previously accused of failing to pay $15 million in taxes between 2012 and 2014 in Spain, a period in which the star says she was not living in the country.

According to court documents obtained by Reuters, Shakira was a resident there during that time frame, as she purchased a home in Barcelona in 2012. (Her official residence was listed as the Bahamas.) In addition to prison time, the filing calls for a fine of $24 million should she be found guilty.
The popstar dismissed the Spanish government's claims as "false accusations," telling Elle she plans to fight the case as a "matter of principle." Shakira argues that she didn't spend the necessary amount of time in the country for tax purposes, 183 days, because she was
"busy fulfilling my professional commitments around the world."
"I've paid everything they claimed I owed, even before they filed a lawsuit," she said. "So as of today, I owe zero to them. And finally, I was advised by one of the four biggest tax specialist firms in the world, PricewaterhouseCoopers, so I was confident that I was doing things correctly and transparently from day one."
Shakira claims this is all par for the course when it comes to the Spanish tax authorities and the tactics they're using against not just her and other celebrities but the "regular taxpayer" as well.

"However, even without evidence to support these fictional claims, as they usually do, they've resorted to a salacious press campaign to try to sway people, and apply pressure in the media along with the threat of reputational damage in order to coerce settlement agreements," she explained. "It is well known that the Spanish tax authorities do this often not only with celebrities like me (or [Cristiano] Ronaldo, Neymar, [Xabi] Alonso, and many more), it also happens unjustly to the regular taxpayer. It's just their style. But I'm confident that I have enough proof to support my case and that justice will prevail in my favor."
So far there's no date yet set for Shakira's trial.
 
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Shakira charged with tax evasion for 2nd time, accused of owing $9.5M - National | Globalnews.ca

Prosecutors in Barcelona announced new charges against Shakira, who they claim failed to pay 6.7 million euros (more than C$9.5 million) in taxes on her 2018 income.
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Shakira charged with tax fraud a second time in Spain, allegedly failed to pay $7.1M in taxes in 2018

Prosecutors claim the “Hips Don’t Lie” singer failed to pay $7.1 million in taxes on her 2018 income by using “a corporate network in tax havens.”
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Shakira accused of tax crimes for the second time

Spanish prosecutors claim the singer has defrauded the state of more than €6m.
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Shakira Settles Spanish Tax Fraud Case ‘With the Best Interest of My Kids at Heart’

Shakira has agreed to a settlement in her multi million dollar tax dispute with Spanish authorities, agreeing to a three-year suspended sentence and a $7.5 million fine — a deal she said in a statement to PEOPLE she came to for the sake of her children.
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Shakira Reaches Deal in Tax Fraud Trial

The pop star was fined more than $15 million and received a suspended three-year sentence
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