Shakira Has Been Ordered To Face Trial Over Tax Fraud In Spain

Still on the Shakira tax evasion case, a Spanish judge has recently ordered the Colombian singer to face trial. This instruction is coming days after Shakira announced that she is fully confident that she will scale through in the case. The trial date for the singer’s tax evasion case is yet to be revealed but the Court of Instruction Number 2 of Esplugues de Llobregat, where the hearing would take place, has released that the hearing date will take place “in the coming months.”

It was reported that Shakira is liable to serve a jail term of 8 years if found guilty of the charges labeled against her It was also revealed that Shakira was invited by the prosecutors to come and reach a form of an agreement but she declined the invitation because she is too confident in the evidences she has and her lawyers.

Two months ago, it was revealed that Shakira, 45, was skipping tax, that she didn’t pay tax from 2012 through 2014, while she stayed in her residence in Spain. When the news of her tax Evasion came out, she was determined to take the matter to court. According to Shakira’s team, Shakira is not owing, hence her readiness to go to court. Shakira, on the other hand, is convinced very much that she has paid off her tax dues.

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Shakira — On The Reason She Was Ordered To Court

Four years ago in the year 2018, Shakira was charged with tax evasion between the year 2012 and 2014. According to prosecutors Shakira was living in Spain during that period of two years but claimed she was living abroad. Shakira alleged that between the years 2012 and 2014, she was living in a different country and was away doing her musical works. Shakira also claimed that her visits to Spain were for official purposes. This tax evasion case was centered on the fact that Shakira lived in Spain for two years and normally, people who live in Spain for up to six months are considered residents and they can begin tax payments.

In the year 2015, Shakira officially made Spain her place of residence. It’s said that Shakira is owing €14.5m, but her legal team claims she has paid off all tax debts which she was accused of evading in 2018. Shakira’s team reported that the singer paid over €17m as a result of accumulated interest that topped the dues.

In July, when the matter was made public, the Barcelona Public Prosecutors’ Office sat with Shakira to reach an agreement so that she would avoid trial, but Shakira refused. Reps of the Waka Waka singer said in a statement that Shakira is very sure she has offset her tax debts and is “fully confident of her innocence”. They also explained that Shakira saw the whole thing as a “violation of her rights”.

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Shakira — Shakira’s Reason For Standing Her Ground

In a recent interview with Elle Magazine, Shakira made it known that she has her reasons for standing up to the Spanish government for claiming that she was evading her taxes, “I’ve paid everything they claimed I owed, even before they filed a lawsuit, 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.”

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