Big **** ..g deal !
He was a "cheap" scapegoat for much bigger figures not paying taxes as they should do !!!
I feel bad for Boris Becker, his life is ruined because of what !?
NOT PAYING TAX !?
Ask Jeff Bezos or Donald Trump how they feel about this !?
Becker was jailed for not declaring all his assets to the British authorities after bankruptcy. Bankruptcy wipes out debts (as the law recognizes that the debts cannot be repaid), so the person who is declared bankrupt must declare all their assets.
The tax evasion case was in Germany from December 1996 to October 2002, and ended with a suspended prison sentence, after Becker was found guilty of deliberately making false statements regarding his place of residence on his income tax filings in order save 3.3 million Deutschmarks. This was when he was claiming residence in Monte Carlo while spending too many days in Germany from 1991-93. The prosecution in the tax evasion case originally charged Becker with evading 10.4 million Deutschmarks from 1991-96, but dropped charges for the latter years later on, focusing on what they saw as clearer evidence in the 1991-93 period.
I didn't realize the extent of it all in the late 1990s, but it's clear that it wrecked his late tennis career going by the timings. Becker was playing amazing tennis in late 1996, and looking set for a great few years, yet by 1997 Wimbledon Becker was saying that he had played his last match at Wimbledon after Sampras beat him in the quarter finals and that he was going into semi retirement. Such a quick fall in form, and it's because Becker's mind was elsewhere.
