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The teams that have to give back taxes by a favourable fiscal "deal"

Published:4/03/2021 - 23:38h

Updated:5/03/2021 - 00:41h

A court of Luxembourg cancelled a previous sentence that tumbó the decision of the European Commission, which demanded to the State recover illegal fiscal helps, of which benefited the four clubs during 20 years with the advantageous fiscal type

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The Court of Justice desestimó this Thursday 4 March the resources issued by the FC Barcelona and the Athletic Club of the Bilbao, and beside the Real Madrid and the Osasuna, will have to return the no paid taxes, after taking advantage of of his condition to the not to transform in sportive anonymous societies.

Of agreement to the proportionate information by the newspaper Sport, these four teams benefited of a fiscal type of 25%, while the other paid 30%. Barça and Athletic resorted to the General Court, that considered the first, but desestimó the second by procedure.

In concrete, the court of Luxembourg cancelled a previous sentence that tumbó the decision of the European Commission, which demanded to the State recover illegal fiscal helps of which benefited the four clubs during 20 years with the advantageous fiscal type.

In this sense, desestimaron the four reasons that formulated the court of first instance, based in "some errors that purportedly incurred the Commission in his examination of the advantage conferred, in the rape of the principles of protection of the legitimate confidence and of juridical security", in the infringement of an article of the Treaties of the EU by have not considered that his decision was justified by "the logical intern" of the fiscal system Spanish and in the violation of the applicable norms to the recovery of the helps.

A case añejo

Voucher remember, that the controversial case traces back to 2016, when the community Executive considered that this norm was contrary to the rules of the Inner Market and that treated of an illegal public help. For that then, Brussels demanded a fine of until five million euros for each team, although the final quantity had to fix it the Spanish authorities in the process of recovery.

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