\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tShakira has been on an absolute tear lately. <\/p>\n
Following the messy public split from her ex, Gerard Piqu\u00e9<\/a>, Shakira channelled the fallout straight into her music \u2013 famously declaring \u201clas mujeres ya no lloran, las mujeres facturan\u201d (women don\u2019t cry anymore, women cash checks).<\/p>\n And she\u2019s been doing exactly that. Big streaming numbers<\/a>, major touring<\/a> momentum, and a steady run<\/a> of industry wins have kept her firmly in control of the narrative.<\/p>\n Now, she\u2019s added a legal victory to the list.<\/p>\n A Madrid court has cleared Shakira in a long-running dispute with Spain\u2019s tax authority over her 2011 finances. The Audiencia Nacional ruled in her favour, ordering the government to repay \u20ac55 million (around \u00a348m) plus interest after finding it had wrongly pursued the case.<\/p>\n At the centre was whether she qualified as a Spanish tax resident that year. Prosecutors argued she should pay income tax in Spain, but the court found they could only prove she spent 163 days in the country\u2014short of the 183-day legal threshold.<\/p>\n Attempts to link her residency status to her relationship with Piqu\u00e9 were also dismissed, with judges stating it didn\u2019t establish Spain as her primary economic base.<\/p>\n In a statement, Shakira said the case had taken a serious toll, describing years of \u201cbrutal public shaming\u201d and reputational damage.<\/p>\n The ruling is separate from her 2023 settlement over tax issues between 2012 and 2014, which she resolved to avoid trial, maintaining her innocence at the time.<\/p>\n Spanish authorities are expected to appeal, meaning the payout won\u2019t land just yet\u2014but for now, it\u2019s another win in a run that doesn\u2019t look like slowing down.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Shakira has been on an absolute tear lately. Following the messy public split from her ex, Gerard Piqu\u00e9,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":26033,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4125,13549,17,2062],"class_list":["post-26032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-spain","tag-court","tag-female-musicians","tag-spain","tag-win"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26032","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=26032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26032\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}