Now it turns out that Shakira's mistake was not having defrauded the treasury of fourteen million or so euros between 2012 and 2014, but rather having chosen wrongly with whom she took the piss of the saying.
Pau Molins, who in addition to being the Colombian's lawyer has a band (music: PorFinViernes), explained it this Monday to Jordi Basté on RAC1. If Shakira, instead of the culé Gerard Piqué, had fallen in love with the Madrid player Sergio Ramos “she would have cost her less money.”
In case you have been on vacation this week on Mars, I tell you that the Colombian singer has just reached an agreement with the prosecution and has accepted, in order not to go to prison, three years in prison and a fine of 7.3 million his tricks with the Treasury. Her lawyer confessed to Basté that he would have gone to trial because he saw it as a win, but that the artist preferred to jump through hoops, pay...
...and leave for Miami as soon as possible.
In those, some of us were fantasizing about the idea of a Shakira-Pilar Rubio duel – the latter, the current partner of Sergio Ramos – when the clever lawyer suddenly brought us out of our reverie: “So much so that they fill their mouths with the equality of the Spanish , if you are a resident of Catalonia you can go to prison for a crime that is impossible to land in Madrid with the same conduct, because there is no estate tax.”
Good chest, that of the musician lawyer. Foment del Treball could not have put it better, and this entity has been crying out for years for the Catalan Government to answer its prayer. Foment, among other representatives of the business world, has been a champion of the elimination of the wealth tax and also of another tax, the inheritance tax. He sees both taxes as equally ideological, unfair, abusive and confiscatory. To compare, let's remember that in Catalonia you pay 66% more to buy a second-hand apartment than in Madrid.
The fact is that, on the regional map, Catalonia represents an anomaly. Neither Madrid, nor Andalusia, nor the Balearic Islands, nor Valencia, nor Galicia charge these two taxes in whole or in part. Basque Country comes apart with its concert. Here, the Government denies that we are the community with the most fiscal pressure according to data from the General Council of Economists (2022), while addressing the issue that any debate on taxation can only be carried out rigorously if we also take up the debate on the underfinancing of Catalonia. One thing doesn't take away the other, I say.
In the end it will be true that Shakira was the wrong soccer player. Because the singer will already be in Miami because, if not, she would advise him to turn on Sergio Ramos and stop by Bollullos de la Mitación one day. There, 40 minutes from the Andalusian capital, free of annoying taxes, the now Sevilla player lives on a property with a paddle tennis court, swimming pool and a seven-a-side soccer field.
