Mourinho, forced to pay the debt he owed from Real Madrid

He Supreme court has confirmed that the Portuguese coach Jose Mourinho must pay a debt corresponding to the tax settlement related to Personal Income Tax (IRPF) for 2011 and 2012, when he directed the Real Madrid.

In 2018, the Central Administrative Economic Court rejected his claim related to personal income tax for the periods 2010-2012, resulting in a tax penalty of 571,073 euros and a settlement agreement of 881,368 euros.

The National audience It later annulled the penalty and declared the Administration’s right to determine the tax debt corresponding to 2010 expired, but it kept the years 2011 and 2012.

Mourinho appealed the settlements for these two years because he alleged an incorrect assessment by the economic court in taxation related to the payments received through the mediation of his contract with real Madrid.

In particular, he said that these payments could not be considered his compensation because it was not proven that the club paid the company Gestifute – dedicated to the intermediation between athletes and football clubs – on its behalf, but instead that it The real Madrid who needed the services of this company and paid him for it.

But now the Administrative Litigation Chamber of the Supreme Court has rejected his appeal and is forcing him to complete the settlements for 2011 and 2012 by recalling that there was no withholding, nor was the coach’s performance declared in the payments that that, so the included in his statement of Tax.

And he emphasizes that “the Tax Administration cannot be blamed for any violation of those people, because “no lack of diligence can be seen in the current case, especially considering that it is not until the corresponding legal -classification, carried out by the inspection, regarding the amounts paid where no withholding was made, when the obligation to withhold said amounts by the payer was confirmed.”