The Real Madrid coach paid a 10% tax compared to the 45% required by Spanish tax regulations, which also claims that as a resident of Spain he had to declare his income in our country in full.
Two tax inspectors, Caridad Mourelo and Salvador Martínez Arroyo, have appeared this Thursday before the Court of Instruction 35 of Madrid and have ratified their accusation for tax crimes against the Real Madrid coach, Carlo Ancelotti. As EL MUNDO has learned, both have insisted that the Italian coach committed two crimes against the public treasury between 2013 and 2015 and have stressed that the case of Ancelotti presents the same characteristics as that of other great stars in the world of sports. football.
“The structure is very similar to that of other athletes”, the officials have assured, while they have specified that the only difference is that Ancelotti’s income from image rights is “lower” than, for example, those of players who They have been at your service in recent years and have also been denounced, in reference to some of the most notorious cases, such as that of the Portuguese Cristiano Ronaldo.
The declaration of the tax inspectors takes place months after the Tax Agency agreed last summer to seize Ancelotti’s salary at Real Madrid for these events, amounting to 1,420,120.51 euros, to settle the tax debt and that he has recently been included in the Treasury’s delinquent list along with other personalities.
“With the intention of avoiding his obligations”
The Treasury maintains that despite the fact that the Italian coach resided in Spain between 2013 and 2015, he did not correctly declare his income from both Real Madrid and his image rights in our country. The Public Ministry argues that Ancelotti acted “with the intention of unjustifiably evading his obligations to the public treasury” and that he intentionally excluded his income from image rights from his statements in order to “hide his identity as a recipient of income” while he was supported by “a complex network of instrumental companies”, some of them based in tax havens.
Ancelotti’s tax problem, assisted by the lawyer Carlos Zabala, from the Clifford Chance law firm, is based on the fact that he channeled all his income through these entities, some of which he had already established since his time as a Chelsea manager.
In this way, he paid 10% compared to the 45% required by Spanish tax regulations, which also claims that being a resident in Spain he had to fully declare his income in our country.
The Treasury has claimed in 2014 the payment of about 300,000 euros in addition to the 3.2 million that it already paid. In 2015, season in which he paid 7 million in taxes, the claim amounts to 675,000 euros more.
“Badly advised”
In the judicial statement he gave last July, Ancelotti acknowledged that he did not pay correctly in 2014 due to having been “poorly advised.” However, he fought the 2015 tax crime accusation, a year in which he was dismissed as Real Madrid coach during his first spell at the white club.
Thus, he maintains that he did not spend 183 days in Spain as argued by the Treasury but 158 and assured that he can prove in this way that he was not a tax resident in our country.
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