Spain charges pop singer Shakira with tax evasion for a second time and demands more than $7 million
Spanish prosecutors have charged pop star Shakira with failing to pay 6.7 million euros ($7.1 million) in tax on her 2018 income, in Spain’s latest fiscal allegations against the Colombian singer BARCELONA, Spain -- Spanish prosecutors have charged pop star Shakira with failing to pay 6.7 million euros ($7.1 million ) in tax on her 2018 income, authorities said Tuesday, in Spain’s latest fiscal allegations against the Colombian singer . Shakira is alleged to have used an offshore company based in a tax haven to avoid paying the tax, Barcelona prosecutors said in a statement. She has been notified of the charges in Miami, where she lives, according to the statement. Shakira is already due to be tried in Barcelona on Nov. 20 in a separate case that hinges on where she lived between 2012-14. In that case, prosecutors allege she failed to pay 14.5 million euros ($15.4 million ) in tax. Prosecutors in Barcelona have alleged the Grammy winner spent more than half of the 2012-14 period in ...