Dani Pedrosa, like Jorge Lorenzo, also beats the Spanish Tax Agency

2023-12-05 15:46:37

The majority of Spanish riders who compete in the Motorcycle World Championship and have chosen to establish their tax residence outside our country, They end up having problems with the Tax Agency sooner or later. We recently learned that Aleix Espargaró is fighting legally with the Treasury to avoid the payment of 586,000 euros that the Spanish public body demands from the Aprilia rider for not having paid taxes in our country between 2014 and 2017, a figure that includes supposedly non-personal income tax settlements. presented and their corresponding sanctions.

Before Aleix, other national pilots have also had to endure harassment and demolition by the Tax Agency. Jorge Lorenzo knows it well: The Balearic Islander has won the two lawsuits he had open against the Treasury for which they claimed a total sum of 45 million euros in respect of personal income tax not paid by the Balearic Islands between 2013 and 2016, when he already had his residence established in Lugano (Switzerland). ).

The AEAT agents in charge of the case They were unable to prove that Lorenzo was residing in Spain at that time, specifically in Barcelona, ​​and after a long legal battle and personal harassment that Jorge himself suffered on the circuits – with visits by inspectors to his motorhome hours before a race – the three-time MotoGP champion announced a year ago, in January from 2023his final and definitive victory against the Tax Agency.

Now he is another MotoGP rider, The days of Pedrosa, the one who also wins his personal pulse against the Treasury; The KTM tester has been investigated on numerous occasions by AEAT technicians, first when he moved to the United Kingdom in 2008 (coinciding with his debut in MotoGP with Honda), and shortly after when he decided to establish his tax residence in Switzerland. , where he still lives today.

The law firm AYG Asesores announced this Tuesday a new victory for its client, Dani Pedrosa, against the Tax Agency; On this occasion, according to the press release issued by the legal firm, “Last Thursday, November 16, the fourth section of the administrative litigation chamber of the National Court was notified of a ruling upholding the administrative litigation appeal filed by Dani Pedrosa Ramal against a personal income tax assessment corresponding to the years 2005 and 2006. in which he lived in London”.

“Although the Sentence is still appealable in cassation before the Supreme Court,” continues Pedrosa’s lawyer, David Gil, “the Tax Agency will have to return to the interested party 2,418,373.20 euros plus the corresponding interest, as well as to pay the costs of the judicial procedure, to which she has been sentenced.”

Dani Pedrosa’s legal team insists that “This ruling is the end of a long path in which the Tax Agency has seen how each and every one of his attempts to establish Pedrosa’s residence in Spain has been rejected“, listing the processes that Hazando has been opening against the Catalan pilot over the last 15 years, and which include the personal income tax settlements of 2008, 2009, 2011, 2012, 2013 and 2014, in addition to the Wealth Tax of these two last years.

All of these processes have been annulled by the Central Administrative Economic Court in different resolutions published in 2019 and 2021, forcing the Treasury to return the amounts paid by the pilot.which exceed 22 million euros, to which the corresponding interest would have to be added.

From AYG Asesores they explain that “Naturally Dani Pedrosa is very satisfied with the conclusion of these processes, in which it has been shown that He never lied about his tax residence, as the Tax Agency maintained”.

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They also require that “Pedrosa bitterly remembers very unpleasant episodes when his name was unjustly published on the Treasury’s list of defaulters in 2015 and 2016, for which he had to endure some unwanted situations, or when agents of the customs surveillance service harassed his family environment, being forced to present a formal complaint to the taxpayer defense council of the Tax Agency”, concludes #26’s legal team.