Shakira Claims She’s Victim of Smear Campaign in Spain Tax Fraud Case

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Prosecutors Engage in Smear Campaigns and Shakedown …
Singer Fighting Back
11/25/2022 6: 17 AM PT
Shakira is firing back at Spanish prosecutors, claiming she’s the victim of a smear campaign and has the receipts to prove it.
The singer filed legal docs Friday in Spain, answering allegations she failed to pay more than $14 million in taxes for income earned from 2012 through 2014.
Shakira states that she was not a Spanish resident during that time. According to the laws of the country, she’s required to pay taxes if she spends 183 days or more there in a single year.
She says during the period in question, she actually paid $10,141,075 in taxes to the U.S. government — this is the time when she appeared as a coach on “The Voice.” She says she was not in Spain for the requisite period of time — 183 days.
Prosecutors are seeking an 8-year prison sentence and a $24 million fine if she’s convicted in the upcoming trial, but she says in new legal docs she’s paid more than $90 mil to Spain’s version of Uncle Sam.
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Shakira to Go to Trial in Spain for Tax Fraud
According to the legal docs, Shakira declared herself a tax resident of Spain in 2015, after settling there with her family and enrolling her son in school.
Shakira claims the government is also gunning for her failure to pay in 2011 … she says she was on a global tour and only spend a grand total of 60 days in the country.
She claims that prosecutors have violated both her privacy and the presumption she innocence by putting her on blast in the manner they have. She describes it as a smear operation.

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