The Polish footballer Robert Lewandowski He did not pay taxes until 2016 on his multimillion-dollar advertising income either in his home country or in Germany, where he plays, according to an investigation by the weekly “The mirror” published this thursday
The international, recognized by FIFA The world’s best player last year, he resorted to what the German publication describes as “dubious tricks” for years, after analyzing “hundreds” of documents.
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Your lawyer and childhood friend, Kamil Gorzelnik, He chose a type of legal formula for the company that carried the footballer’s image rights that, due to the holes in Polish law, left a lot of room for fiscal creativity.
“There are risks, but you have to risk something to make a profit,” Gorzelnik wrote in an email to Lewandowski’s adviser, Cezary Kucharski.
The lawyer first took advantage of a 23-month tax holiday to avoid paying taxes and later made 2.5 million euros disappear from the company’s accounts to be able to declare losses before the Treasury. “Thanks to Kamil I have avoided paying taxes,” Lewandowski wrote in an email to Kucharski.
The footballer has been since October, when the German Treasury began to investigate him, avoiding talking about your tax problems. Through a spokeswoman, he has only indicated that he always complied with the law and the right, and that he is cooperating fully with the Polish and German Estates.
EFE