The newspaper “El Confidencial” points out that Barça will have to pay a fine after an investigation by the Treasury
New open front for FC Barcelona. According to reports’the confidential’the tax authorities, which opened a file on the Barcelona entity for alleged irregularities, decided to penalize the Barcelona club with economic fines for an amount of up to €15.7 million after an investigation.
Allocation of cars to players and charter flights
The alleged These alleged irregularities have taken place according to the aforementioned media in the transfer of cars of the brand “Audi” to its members templateas well as failure to declare payment of charter flights to their players and also concerning incorrect settlement of fees what did you get some football players. would be the case Arda Turan (1,312,500 euros) and Alex song (3.5 million euros), who negotiated his departure from the club.
Compensation for the departure of Arda and Song
The Treasury procedure shows a table in which the AET confirms that no withholding has been applied to the termination fee. Arda Turan, Alex Song, Edgar Ie and also executive Arno Trebesinger, who was in charge of the club’s New York office until 2018. According to the version of ‘El Confidencial’, the Treasury indicates differences in the settlement of personal income tax, corporate income tax and VAT withheld for different years.
The tax authorities’ investigation started in 2019 and dates back to 2015. In the case of the cars, tax inspectors tried check if it was some form of undeclared compensation. The same thing happened with the charter flightswhich, according to the Treasury, would not have been calculated as part of his salary.
Barcelona corrects El Confidencial’s information
Fútbol Club Barcelona has issued a statement making some comments and corrections to the information published by El Confidencial.
The full text of the statement
FC Barcelona wants to deny the content of the information published today, Thursday, May 11, 2023 The confidential with the following headline:Treasury fines Barça 15 million after tracing payments to players with Audi cars and charter flights.
In particular, FC Barcelona makes the following reviews and corrections to the published content:
That the club has been inspected for the years 2015/2016 up to and including 2017/2018, the inspection will close in July 2021.
Of the alleged irregularities he speaks of The confidential In his article, none of the issues mentioned were approved by the Treasury.
The sentences referred to in the article, which have been appealed to the Central Economic Administrative Court, relate to a different issue, such as the tax treatment of payments to players’ agents.
In this regard, Barça would like to underline that in April 2023 the Central Economic Administrative Court upheld the appeals of the Club’s lawyers and annulled the sanctions related to personal income tax and non-individual income tax. The penalty related to value added tax is also expected to be lifted shortly as it also relates to the tax treatment of payments to players’ agents.
The club will request rectification of the information.
Source: Goal