Paris Saint-Germain Neymar’s striker owes more unpaid taxes than anyone on the Spanish authorities’ blacklist with debts of 34. 6 million euros ($40. 5 million), according to an official document published Wednesday.
The Brazilian, who played for Barcelona from 2013 to 2017 before joining the French club for 222 million euros in the highest face play in history, tops the list of thousands of names of the Spanish tax website. The Spanish press reported last year that the country The tax government was prosecuting Neymar for tax evasion since its time in Barca, but this is the first time that the data has been officially confirmed.
The Spanish tax authorities, contacted through AFP, did not specify whether Neymar’s presence on the list was related to his transfer to Barcelona in 2013 from Brazilian club Santos, but said that in order to be on the list of the largest debtors, the Americans had to meet several criteria, adding not to set the debt payment deadline.
According to media reports, the Spanish fiscal government is investigating two of Neymar’s movements, his arrival at the Camp Nou from Santos in 2013 and his transfer to the French capital 4 years later. Marca said the agreement charges 57. 1 million euros, but according to the Spanish government, the club paid 83. 3 million euros for the striker. In 2016, he signed a new contract with the Catalans who for a progressive bonus but refused to pay him the remaining 26 million euros in supplements after his march to the Parc des Príncipes. In June, a Spanish court dismissed the forward’s complaint against him club and ordered him to pay 6. 79 million euros to the team, which claimed to have violated its agreement.
Other footballers, such as former Real Madrid goalkeeper Cristiano Ronaldo and Neymar’s former Barca partner Lionel Messi, have also spoken to the Spanish tax authorities. In January 2019, Ronaldo, now on the Italian side of Juventus, received a two-year suspended penalty sentence. The Portuguese striker also agreed to pay EUR 18. 8 million in late fines and taxes to settle the case, according to legal sources, and Messi paid a fine of two million euros in 2016 in his own tax litigation and received a penalty. Suspended penalty sentence of 21 months.