So Spain is like the Yankees, they want to know if I own shit in Portugal even if I already owned the properties before coming to US. We need taxes but everything has a limit and some countries spit out capitalism and freedom to the world when they are worse than the tax collectors from the kings of the 17th century
Ronaldo to pay 15 millions for tax fraud
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I do trust Ronaldo but I don't trust Mendes and a football player doesn't know shit about taxes and that's a problem when an accounting firm does things illegally.
Why aren't they going after any Spanish players?
After I read the link I think any player who came from UK is fecked.
Players that came from UK so far and because that Beckham law which looks like they really don't know much themselves.
Woah
As you said is not a matter of trust in someone, "an example has to be set" so others don't do the same, right?
They went
http://www.diariogol.com/es/notices...o-lupa-a-xavi-iniesta-puyol-y-pique-45385.php
http://www.elperiodico.com/es/notic...as-regularizan-situacion-con-hacienda-3645818
Xavi has already endorsed a huge amount to Hacienda to reach some kind of agreement, Casillas settled at 2M, Ramos, Puyol, Pique, Iniesta... even Michel Salgado, they were all looked into the tax fraud thing. This goes beyond football too, Pedrosa, Nadal, Jorge Lorenzo... they all had to reach agreements with Hacienda settling for millions (Pedrosa has to pay so much that he's not able to do it I think).
If we are to believe Xavi, clubs have been handling image right payments wrong for years, and its just coming into the light now that the war started
http://www.mundodeportivo.com/futbo...valar-una-cantidad-importante-a-hacienda.html
The problem with all of this, is that politics between Real Madrid/Barcelona started a war that's claiming Messi and Ronaldo's heads, Mascherano and Xabi Alonso did almost the same thing, and their taxes were done by the same people, but judges were harsh with Mascherano and he decided to end the whole thing by settling and accepting months of prison without having to enter it.
But as Mascherano was being paraded in the Spanish media and screwed by judges, Xabi Alonso was taking it easy. The Madrid local prosecution argued that Alonso was innocent and they didn't need to go after Alonso, but they had to after a bigger instance forced them, then the ¿Spanish public prosecutor? took disciplinary actions against the chief prosecutor in Madrid, the chief prosecutor had to present the arguments against Xabi Alonso and his work was having another employee fill a 5 line text, when Hacienda presented a complete and extense 30 page appeal, so Madrid's Chief Prosecutor was accused of doing a poor job on purpose
http://www.elperiodico.com/es/notic...al-jefe-madrid-xabi-alonso-mascherano-6006414
Add to that things like the ¿State bar? wanting to present criminal charges against Messi when the DA wanted him acquitted, the ties between the guys wanting the criminal charges having worked for RM/Florentino and you have a bomb.
I'm almost sure this whole Ronaldo thing would've ended in nothing had it not for the football leaks thing that stirred public opinion and forced someone's hand to act in something that was being managed behind the curtain, now it just seems like open war between guys who coudl've been pressured by Florentino trying to cover things, and other workers overzealous to make justice because they've seen the corruption and now have been presented with a chance to do what they thought they couldn't do months or years ago.
My personal opinion, this is a circus, Spanish athletes have been screwing with they taxes from the 90's as lons as I can remember, but when this reached our "holy trinity" (RM, Barcelona and the National Team) this went to the next level, there was pressure to set an example of Messi and to tarnish his image with a prison sentence when a lot of other players were just quietly settling their debts, now with Ronaldo this is just spinning out of control.
And Spanish players won't be judged by the media because they have powerful friends there and Spain tends to protect our "national heroes", remember the Puerto doping that the Spanish government closed shamelessly to prevent a huge turmoil? We're just a corrupt country, don't try to find logic in our actions
Good post @Ishdalar
https://amp.elmundo.es/deportes/football-leaks/2017/06/21/594aa26e22601df1098b45e5.html
"...Documents obtained by the German weekly Der Spiegel, a member of the EIC network of which El Mundo is part, suggest that the player's defense would have falsified the date of a contract to show that his signature had taken place earlier, something that would dismantle the goodwill wielded by Ronaldo's defense..."
"...Documents obtained by the German weekly Der Spiegel, a member of the EIC network of which El Mundo is part, suggest that the player's defense would have falsified the date of a contract to show that his signature had taken place earlier, something that would dismantle the goodwill wielded by Ronaldo's defense..."
This magazin 'der Spiegel' really hates Ronaldo. Remember the rape accusations, nothing came from it. Let's see what an actual court of law will decide...
If they can prove that contacts have been fabricated or dates changed, that's where the charge gets really serious.
Don't worry Ronnie, Manchester United will pay your fine .....just sign here on the dotted line.