Shakira has been acquitted of tax fraud in Spain.<\/p>\n
Following an appeal by the Colombian singer, Spain’s High Court has acquitted her of tax fraud relating to the 2011 tax year. <\/p>\n
According to Reuters, the judge has overturned the 55 million euro ($64 million\/\u00a348 million) fine imposed on Shakira in 2021 by the Spanish tax agency. <\/p>\n
The court also ordered the country’s Treasury to reimburse the Hips Don’t Lie hitmaker with over 60 million euros ($70 million\/\u00a352 million), including interest. <\/p>\n
“This decision comes after an eight-year ordeal that has taken an unacceptable toll, reflecting a lack of rigour in administrative practice,” Shakira’s lawyer, Jose Luis Prada, told the agency in a statement.<\/p>\n
The 49-year-old said that she hoped the ruling would set a precedent for “thousands of ordinary citizens who are abused and crushed every day by a system that presumes them ?guilty and forces them to prove their innocence while facing ?financial and ?emotional ruin”.<\/p>\n
The tax authorities had claimed that Shakira, who was in a long-term relationship with Spanish footballer Gerard Piqu\u00e9 at the time, was a resident in Spain for tax purposes in 2011.<\/p>\n
However, the judge ruled that tax officials failed to prove that the Whenever, Wherever singer spent more than 183 days in the country that year. <\/p>\n
The court ruled that the fines were unlawful because they were “based on the assumption that ?the appellant’s tax residence was in Spain for the 2011 fiscal year, a ?fact which has not been proven”.<\/p>\n
The ruling does not affect other tax years. It can also be appealed to the country’s Supreme Court. <\/p>\n
Shakira previously settled a separate tax fraud case over the 2012 to 2014 tax years in November 2023. Just as her trial in Barcelona was due to begin, she reached a deal with prosecutors and agreed to pay a fine of over 7 million euros ($8 million\/\u00a36 million). <\/p>\n
The global superstar was in a relationship with Piqu\u00e9 between 2010 and 2022, and they share sons Milan, 13, and Sasha, 11.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Shakira has been acquitted of tax fraud in Spain. Following an appeal by the Colombian singer, Spain’s High…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":25539,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[13325,2503,8937,13304,13357,13305,13312,13306,13321,13344,13341,13334,13315,13353,13329,4548,13364,13363,13332,13307,293,4964,9967,13349,13356,13361,7021,13324,13350,13352,13345,6424,13358,12019,13316,13308,12020,13323,13311,13320,1876,13326,6387,13338,13327,12018,13331,13360,13348,4289,13303,13318,13362,13330,273,13342,13317,13328,8994,13333,2688,13340,481,13310,3796,13314,12025,13359,13336,6558,13313,13302,2754,13351,13337,13309,17,13343,13347,13346,13339,4547,9415,13335,13322,13319,3727,13354,13355],"class_list":["post-25538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-spain","tag-nsync","tag-2503","tag-albums","tag-alternative","tag-angst","tag-artists","tag-ash","tag-audio","tag-backstreet-boys","tag-beatles","tag-beck","tag-blink-182","tag-blur","tag-books","tag-britney-spears","tag-buy-tickets","tag-cd","tag-cds","tag-christina-aguilera","tag-classic","tag-competitions","tag-concerts","tag-dance","tag-david-bowie","tag-e-cards","tag-e-mail","tag-email","tag-eminem","tag-fifty","tag-films","tag-foo-fighters","tag-free","tag-gigs","tag-hardcore","tag-hendrix","tag-hip-hop","tag-indie","tag-korn","tag-lennon","tag-limp-bizkit","tag-live","tag-madonna","tag-magazine","tag-manics","tag-marilyn-manson","tag-metal","tag-metallica","tag-microsoft-media-player","tag-moby","tag-music-news","tag-music-news-reviews","tag-muzik","tag-my","tag-nelly","tag-news","tag-nirvana","tag-oasis","tag-pearl-jam","tag-pop","tag-prince","tag-prodigy","tag-pulp","tag-quotes","tag-rb","tag-radio","tag-radiohead","tag-rap","tag-real-audio","tag-rem","tag-rock","tag-sex-pistols","tag-shakira-acquitted-of-tax-fraud-in-spain-music","tag-shop","tag-singles","tag-smashing-pumpkins","tag-soul","tag-spain","tag-stereophonics","tag-stone-roses","tag-suede","tag-supergrass","tag-tickets","tag-top","tag-travis","tag-u2","tag-underworld","tag-video","tag-webcasts","tag-webchats"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25538\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}