MANCHESTER UNITED MANAGER Jose Mourinho is set to admit to a Spanish court investigating him that he evaded €3.3 million in tax while coaching Real Madrid, Spanish daily El Mundo reported today.
The 55-year-old Portuguese is accused of committing tax fraud in 2011 and 2012, prosecutors said last year.
He has reportedly accepted to pay a fine corresponding to 60% of the amount he allegedly hid from the taxman and to a one-year prison sentence that should be commuted into another fine, the newspaper said.
That should come to a total of more than €5 million, it added.
The deal reached with prosecutors and the Spanish taxman has not yet been submitted to the court investigating the case, according to El Mundo.
Mourinho is the latest in a long list of football players and other personalities in the industry to be accused of tax fraud in Spain on income related to image rights in the past few years.
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The common link between all these figures in Spanish football, bar Messi, is Jorge Mendes. It’s him who should be being questioned by the courts.
@EK: The common link between all these, including Messi, is greed and stupidity!
@John Smith: true John but I think the root of the problem is the Spanish clubs and there Presidents
@EK: Mendes is not the only one by a long shot and these are the few cases that are visible . Since Messi and Ronaldos cases many players will be making voluntary updates of their previous 5 years of annual declarations
@Nucky: they’re part of the problem but they didn’t invent offshore banking , tax havens and bizarre as it may seem European employment legislation and the Bosman ruling have all contributed to the chaos . You can expect a flood of signings in Italy next season if the government holds on . Tax on offshore earnings is capped at 100k
@Limón Madrugada: No but you can be damn sure that when contract negotiations are in full swing they are giving out the advice
@Nucky: their presidents I believe you meant to spell ?
@Tricksy: get a life knobknocker
So that’s what he meant when he held up his three fingers in that press conference,”you know what dis means?3.3million”.id be pissed off too.
The offshore one…..
He does love the number 3.