2023-10-09 10:19:18
The Tax agency has reopened an investigation against FC Barcelona for payments to the players’ agents between 2015 and 2018, according to ‘El Confidencial’.
The Barça club managed to annul a previous claim for the same reason in March, but, according to a resolution of the National Court, the Treasury has returned to the charge in the face of “new verification and investigation actions.” According to the Treasury, agents only work for the players and, therefore, these payments are still a way to increase the salary of the footballers themselves.
This is the thesis of the Tax Agency to pursue two alleged irregularities: on the one hand, the club cannot deduct VAT from invoices with these intermediaries, and, on the other, the player must pay personal income tax or income tax. non-residents (IRNR) for this supposed hidden salary increase.
The Supreme Court changed the rules of the game in February and concluded that the Treasury should have claimed the money through another means. This new doctrine has caused the annulment of million-dollar claims to several clubs throughout 2023. In the case of Barça, the Central Economic Court (TEAC) annulled on March 28 a Treasury claim that exceeded 12 million euros.
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The Barcelona entity, always according to ‘El Confidencial’, denounces that, shortly after, the Treasury notified them of a new investigation for the same concept and periods. Specifically, for the IRNR that goes from July 2015 to June 2018:. The National Court includes Barça’s complaints in an order dated September 1.
This resolution is part of a parallel procedure by the IRNR from the years 2012 to 2015 in which, by applying the doctrine of the Supreme Court, the magistrates also annulled the corresponding inspection of June 14: “The Administration has exceeded the limits,” they concluded in their sentence. The decision was a boost for the club, by canceling a claim of more than one million euros. But now, after notifying them of the opening of new actions by the IRNR from 2015 to 2018, Barça fears that the Treasury will also reopen those for these years. In an attempt to avoid this, the club presented a new document before the National Court on June 30 in which it asked the magistrates to complement the sentence to make it clear that any action by the IRNR from 2012 to 2015 has already prescribed.
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