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Topic: Barcelona's Messi sentenced to 21 months' jail for tax fraud

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- olweasel
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Barcelona's Messi sentenced to 21 months' jail for tax fraud
OP - July 06, 2016, 03:50 PM

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Barcelona (AFP) - A court in Spain on Wednesday sentenced Barcelona striker Lionel Messi and his father to 21 months in jail for tax fraud, in the latest case of tax avoidance involving a top footballer in the country.

But the prison sentences are likely to be suspended as is common in Spain for first offences for non-violent crimes carrying a sentence of less than two years.

The Barcelona court found the Argentina international and his father Jorge Horacio Messi guilty of using companies in Belize, Britain, Switzerland and Uruguay to avoid paying taxes on 4.16 million euros of Messi's income earned from his image rights from 2007-09.
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http://sports.yahoo.com/news/barcelonas-messi-sentenced-21-months-tax-fraud-111336062--sow.html

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Barcelona's Messi sentenced to 21 months' jail for tax fraud
Reply #1 - July 06, 2016, 04:32 PM

But it seems like that he won't go to jail.

I respect the decision of the court and I can not understand Messi. In the end he owe his successful career to the good education of Barcelona, but he doesn't want to taxes there. He is a millionaire because of Barcelona, but he still tries to find pay less taxes. Spain has huge economical problems and football players there already get tax advantages.

The same goes for Michael Schumacher. I once saw a documentation on TV about him saying that his education to become a Formula 1 driver costed the German government over 1 million Mark. And how does he pay back his expensive education? He goes to Switzerland to pay taxes there. And even there is registered as "unemployed" so he has to pay less taxes.
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