Just a little surf and sand eased Shakira’s thoughts whereas coping with her $14 million tax fraud case. The ‘Hips Don’t Lie’ singer donned a wetsuit and hit the seashore alongside her two sons, Milan and Sasha.
Late November isn’t often a time to log on within the Northern Hemisphere, however while you’re Shakira, you find time for the seashore. On Wednesday (Nov. 30), Shakira, 45, took her sons – Milan, 9, and Sasha, 7 – to the seashore in Cantabria, Spain. The singer sported a navy-colored wetsuit to maintain herself heat within the chilly ocean waters, whereas her boys wearing black wetsuits after they had been out within the waves.
This seashore journey comes amidst Shakira’s ongoing $14 million tax fraud case. The Colombian singer is accused of “failing to pay revenue taxes to the Spanish authorities between 2012 and 2014,” per The New York Occasions. Prosecutors claimed Shakira spent greater than half of every yr in Spain between 2012 and 2014 and allegedly used a beforehand established “company framework” to cover revenue and property throughout these years.
Spanish regulation says that those that reside six months – 183 days or extra – within the nation should pay taxes. Spanish home tax regulation makes use of three standards to contemplate if an individual is a resident or not: “bodily presence, the middle of financial pursuits, and the situation of a partner and youngsters,” per NYT. For over a decade, Shakira was concerned with Barcelona FC participant Gerard Piqué, till they introduced their cut up in June.
Shakira has denied all of the allegations and has reportedly paid the 14.5 million Euros that the Spanish Treasury claimed she owed. “To begin with, I didn’t spend 183 days per yr at the moment in any respect,” Shakira mentioned in an Elle interview. “I used to be busy fulfilling my skilled commitments around the globe. Second, I’ve paid every part they claimed I owed, even earlier than they filed a lawsuit. In order of as we speak, I owe zero to them. And eventually, I used to be suggested by one of many 4 largest tax specialist companies on the earth, PricewaterhouseCoopers, so I used to be assured that I used to be doing issues appropriately and transparently from day one.
“Shakira is a taxpayer who has all the time proven impeccable tax conduct and has by no means had tax issues in every other jurisdiction,” her authorized crew mentioned in a Nov. 25 assertion. “With no stable proof to help the fees in opposition to her, she has been fiercely persecuted within the legal and media spheres utilizing unacceptable strategies to break her repute and pressure her to come back to a settlement settlement.”