Jose Mourinho has become the next celebrity to be involved in the tax evasion scandal. The United manager was sentenced to 1 year in prison by the Spanish court but was allowed to pay a fine. It is easy to see the problem of tax evasion is tied to Spanish football. Where is the reason?
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Why La Liga into "tax evasion drive"?
From Messi, Ronaldo to Mourinho
According to the indictment from Spanish prosecutors, Mourinho hinted at an income of about 3.7 million euros from image copyright in 2011 and 2012, which was during Real Madrid's (2010-2013) lead. ). Specifically, the Portuguese coach has used the network of foreign companies in the "tax haven" countries to "appropriated illegal profits" as alleged.
Last November, Mourinho had to appear at a closed hearing due to the allegations. A court in Madrid has recently been sentenced to one year in prison for a strategist who is leading Manchester United. However, the special person will be fined for exemption from imprisonment, at about 2.3 million euros.
As such, Mourinho has become the next big figure in the football world involved in tax evasion. As previously known, a series of football stars have been prosecuted and sentenced for this crime, such as Cristiano Ronaldo, Messi, Neymar, Mascherano, Marcelo, Alexis Sanchez, Modric or Di Maria. Mourinho is also more special when he became the first famous coach to work in the wrong round of tax evasion.
It is easy to see that most of the tax evasion strikes in the football world over the years are related to the players and now more coaches have worked in Spain. Obviously that is not a coincidence or just in Spain, these new violations are monitored, discovered and punished.
"Beckham Law" is the reason
According to analysts in Spain, the law of tax exemption for foreign stars, also known as Beckham Law, is the cause of a series of tax evasion in the background of gaur. .
This law has been in place since the end of 2005. Accordingly football stars in particular, foreign workers in general, will enjoy special tax incentives. Specifically, the maximum tax rate that stars such as David Beckham, Cristiano Ronaldo or coach Jose Mourinho must play in Spain is only 24%, instead of up to 43% for Spanish citizens.
However, the Beckham Law was reviewed by the Spanish authorities at the end of 2009 and will no longer apply to foreigners coming to work in Spain after January 1, 2010. In addition, the Beckham Law further adjusted the level of taxation of foreign workers before that time.
Since then, a number of celebrities in the Spanish soccer industry have suffered financially. Although very rich and still enjoy huge salaries, but the loss of income leads them to arise intention to evade taxes. The intention is to become actionable when around them appear many of the stingers come from taxing and promising tax evasion networks. The tax evasion became very easy at the time, and all believed they would not be detected. That is why many stars in La Liga are reluctant to evade taxes, from Messi, Neymar, Ronaldo to Mourinho as mentioned above.
However, Spanish officials have recognized that the problem of tax evasion by foreigners, especially the football star, has become very serious, need to handle. Then, now the players millionaire coach but still take a few million euros on the turn to the horseshoe and pay the price for his action!
Top 5 tax evasion cases in La Liga
Cristiano Ronaldo
In the summer, Ronaldo was sentenced to two years in prison for hiding € 14.7 million in taxes from 2011 to 2014 in Spain. He then had to pay a fine of 16.7 million euros to avoid jail time.
Lionel Messi
Messi is sentenced to 21 months in prison in 2016 for using a foreign company net of 4.1 million euros in income from 2007-2009. He and his father must pay a total of 3.4 million euros to escape prison.
Neymar
Neymar has been repeatedly accused of tax evasion, from playing for Santos, then transferring to Barca and during his time at the Nou Camp. Neymar paid a fine of 10 million euros for a two-year prison sentence for the charges.
Luka Modric
In January this year, the best player in the World Cup 2018 was convicted of tax evasion near 1 million euros in 2013 and 2014. He then must also pay the equivalent amount to escape the labor.
Angel Di Maria
Di Maria is one of the first football stars to be found guilty of tax evasion. He pleaded guilty two times in court for about € 1.3 million in unpaid taxes to Real (2010-2014). The total amount of penalties that Di Maria incurred is almost 2 million euros.
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