Shakira Claims ‘Full Innocence’ In Response To Spanish Tax Fraud Case – Hollywood Life

View gallery

Shakira isn’t backing down. The “Hips Don’t Lie” songstress, 45, hit again at Spanish authorities on Nov. 25, calling their $14 million tax fraud case in opposition to her a complete sham. Shakira declared her innocence whereas accusing authorities of getting “no stable proof” in opposition to her in a press release from her authorized crew shared with the Day by day Mail.

“Shakira is a taxpayer who has all the time proven impeccable tax conduct and has by no means had tax issues in some other jurisdiction,” the assertion learn. “With no stable proof to help the costs in opposition to her, she has been fiercely persecuted within the felony and media spheres utilizing unacceptable strategies to break her popularity and pressure her to come back to a settlement settlement.”

The identical day she filed authorized paperwork in her protection. Shakira claims she shouldn’t be a full-time resident of the nation from 2012 to 2014, due to this fact is exempt from having to pay earnings taxes. In response to Spanish legislation, she could be required to pay taxes if she spends 183 days or extra there in a single yr, in accordance with TMZ. The star went on to say that she did pay $10,141,075 in taxes to the U.S. authorities in the course of the interval in query, when she was working within the States as a choose on The Voice.

The assertion went on with some phrases from the pop star herself. She instructed the general public, “It’s unacceptable that in its accusation the tax authorities aren’t respecting the authorized certainty that have to be assured to any taxpayer, not my basic rights. In my case, they’ve violated my proper to privateness and the presumption of innocence, primary rights of any citizen.”

It went on to elucidate why Shakira was able to take the case to trial. (As of Nov. 25, 2022, a court docket date had but to be scheduled.) “Shakira needs to precise her absolute confidence within the independence of the Spanish justice system and her agency conviction that, after the trial, her full innocence will prevail,” the assertion learn.

Shakira’s authorized drama isn’t the one factor on her plate. The star has additionally been coping with the fallout from her break up from longtime accomplice Gerard Pique. Breaking her silence about her current struggles in a September cowl story for Elle journal, the singer referred to as it the “darkest hour of my life.”