Las Japan tax authorities they claim the Spanish footballer Andres Iniesta the payment of 580 million yen (about 3.5 million euros or 3.7 million dollars) for not having properly declared his income during his stay in the country, according to Japanese media published this Friday.
Iniesta is one of three foreign footballers who played for Japanese teams from whom the Japanese Tax Agency is demanding different amounts for not having correctly complied with their tax obligations, resulting in a total undeclared amount of 2,100 million yen (12.7 million euros), according to what the state broadcaster NHK published this Friday.
According to unspecified sources cited by NHK, the Osaka Regional Tax Office, under whose jurisdiction the city of Kobe is located, has determined that Iniesta left some 860 million yen (about 5.2 million euros) undeclared for his fees. contractual agreements with Vissel Kobe, to which he belonged between July 2018 and the same month last year.
With surcharges
The Japanese authorities consider that Iniesta, 39, was, for tax purposes, resident in Japan, having been living during that period with his family in the city of Kobe, of which he was a cultural ambassador.
Consequently, the Japanese Tax Agency requests from the footballer, who currently plays for the Emirates Club, an amount of 580 million yen that includes a surcharge for accumulated tax non-payments, according to the Japanese state broadcaster.
The Japanese Tax Agency has concluded that both Iniesta and the other two foreign players did not properly file their respective tax returns for a certain period of time even though they resided in Japan.
The other two footballers are the South Korean Kim Jin-hyeon (36), Cereza Osaka goalkeeper, who would have left 700 million yen (4.2 million euros) undeclared, and the Brazilian forward Anderson Patric Aguiar Oliveira, “Patric” (36), who currently plays for Nagoya Grampus and would not have declared some 600 million yen (3.6 million euros).
2024-03-22 07:31:27
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