The singer this week rejected a settlement deal offered by prosecutors, opting to go to trial instead
Shakira’s public relations team says the singer has always fulfilled her tax duties. It says the artist has deposited the amount she is said to owe, including 3 million euros in interest.
Shakira is accused of failing to pay up 14.5 million euros in tax income between 2012 and 2014, a period in which Shakira’s representatives say she did not live in Spain. The 45-year-old singer — dubbed ‘the Queen of Latin Music — says she moved to Barcelona in 2015, where she lived with FC Barcelona soccer club defender Gerard Pique. They have two chidren and recently separated.Article content
Shakira says even though her legal team disagreed about the alleged debt, she paid the 17.2 million that the Spanish tax office claimed she owed so she has had no outstanding debt with the tax authorities for many years.Prosecutors in Barcelona have alleged the Grammy winner spent more than half of each year between 2012 and 2014 in Spain and should have paid taxes in the country.
Shakira recently ended an 11-year-long relationship with FC Barcelona star Gerard Pique, with whom she has two children. The family used to live in Barcelona.
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