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Lionel Messi and his father Jorge have been sentenced to 21 months in prison for tax fraud, but the Barcelona forward is not expected to spend any time behind bars.

 

The Court of Catalonia on Wednesday found that the Messis had evaded tax on Lionel’s image rights, with more than €4m owed in back payments. But because the court’s sentence was less than two years and neither Messi has a criminal record, neither will be sent to prison.

Prosecutors had alleged that tax havens in Belize and Uruguay were used to conceal earnings from image rights. But Messi said he “knew nothing” about his financial affairs.

 

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2016/jul/06/lionel-messi-barcelona-prison-21-months-tax-fraud?CMP=twt_gu

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You an expert in Spanish tax like? He clearly thought he had a decent accountant and just let him get on with it.

 

 

Yeah cause when you're paid 15m a year you can be arsed learning the tax system in your spare time.

Loads of sports stars get ripped off. He won't be the first, or the last.

 

It doesn't even look like he handed it to a tax advisor to sort. He handed it to someone else who then went to a tax advisor.

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Loads of sports stars get ripped off. He won't be the first, or the last.

 

It doesn't even look like he handed it to a tax advisor to sort. He handed it to someone else who then went to a tax advisor.

It's not a case of footballers being thick.

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What's it a case of then Bloots? Man makes too much money and thinks nothing bad will happen?

When you're that good\rich it doesn't make sense to spend time reading up on tax laws.

If he did he wouldn't be where he is now; earning 15m a year. Instead he'd be higuain or palermo.

 

besides he probably thinks it's boring as fuck and would rather pay someone to do it for him.

 

Like I do with DIY.

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When you're that good\rich it doesn't make sense to spend time reading up on tax laws.

If he did he wouldn't be where he is now; earning 15m a year. Instead he'd be higuain or palermo.

 

besides he probably thinks it's boring as fuck and would rather pay someone to do it for him.

 

Like I do with DIY.

I'm not suggesting he reads up on tax laws. I'm suggesting he puts more thought in to who he trusts with his affairs.

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This is the thing that's really annoying. If that were just an ordinary person like ourselves, we'd be instantly jailed, but just because of who he is, he gets off scott free. Shocking

Not in Spain we wouldn't sentences under 2 year can be served on probation.

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Tax affairs aren't that difficult unless you try to avoid paying tax. Then it depends how much you wish to push that tax avoidance, entering the grey area between avoidance and evasion.

 

When you instruct someone else to make sure you pay as little tax as possible, then it is best to try and keep at least a passing interest in what they are doing for you, given it will ultimately be you that is responsible for the items you submit and sign.

 

He has ultimately indulged in what all multi-national corporations do. That said, it is a lot easier to identify that Messi, a person, spends the majority of his time in Spain, compared to identifying where branding, product development etc belong.

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When you're that good\rich it doesn't make sense to spend time reading up on tax laws.

If he did he wouldn't be where he is now; earning 15m a year. Instead he'd be higuain or palermo.

 

besides he probably thinks it's boring as fuck and would rather pay someone to do it for him.

 

Like I do with DIY.

:laughing:

 

How does paying someone to do your DIY work?

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Couldn't find a thread to bump so on the subject of Argentinian football, watched that Boca v River Plate game last night. Holy fuck! What a lot of shite. 47 fouls! 40 fuckin 7. Barely 3 passes strung together before someone got clattered. Not even a red card, the game would've been abandoned with a Scottish ref in the first half when one of the sides went down to 7 men. Unless it was an old firm game of course.

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