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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIkPNf08qLY
The journalist asks him about the tax issue, that it’s been said that he’s paid very little taxes.
Rafa: Well, first of all, as you can imagine, I haven’t controlled these issues all of these years. I’ve been playing tennis and there’s a team who takes care of these things, no?.
Due to what’s been on the news on these last few weeks, naturally I’ve been worried and I’ve informed myself of how the whole situation is. And the real situation is very far from what’s been on the news.
Q: (Asks again if it’s true that he’s paid very little taxes, that especially considering the situation in Spain. If what’s been reported is true whether he knew it or not).
Rafa: Look, I started to play tennis when I was very little, Back then from what I understand assessors came along and to offer the opportunity to go live outside of Spain, with a completely different tax system, it was decided we would stay here in Spain… but well, we have relationships with people from San Sebastian (the place where the companies were located, I guess), since many, many years, in a personal level as in an business level. Through them we were offered the possibility of locating the companies in (a place which name I don’t quite understand). In theory there were tax advantages, always in a legal way…
Journalists says that it is indeed legal.
Rafa: Badly advised, the societies were located there. The (tax) advantages have not been such, and last year the societies were moved to Mallorca. I understand Spain is going through a very complicated moment, I understand that these things that have come out about me might upset many people who are having a hard time, because the same would have been the case with me, if I had been one of these people who are having a hard time and I had seen someone like me and hears this about him, that he makes a lot of money and pays very little, well, evidently Id think it-s wrong. But that has not been the case.
Q: (around 6:30) It has been published you pay very little taxes, to close the issue, that you’ve only paid some thousands Euros in taxes, is this so?.
Rafa: The thing is that the information that’s been published is very far from the reality. We published a statement, I thought it had clarified things, I can see that’s not the case, but first, it’s a personal issue and I find it hard to talk about it because I’ve never done it but, it’s going to be the only time I’m going to and not again, because with the moments we’re going through (Spain) I don’t think it’s good either to say how much I’ve paid or I’ve made. But one has to understand that I, Rafael Nadal, have always had my tax residence in Mallorca, so I’ve always paid taxes in Spain. Then, the societies have indeed been for several years in (that place in Spain) that in theory offered some benefits that haven’t been so. My biggest earnings are from outside from Spain, as much in a personal level as with these societies, get their biggest earnings from outside from Spain, so the earnings, first of all, you pay taxes in the place of origin (of the earnings), always, and then you pay taxes in Spain. And that’s the way it’s been… and it’s very hard for me to say it, but these societies, in the years they’ve been there, have paid more than 20 million Euros. And I, on a personal level, have paid a very similar amount. In the end, it’s many million Euros that I’ve paid…
Q: (around 8:23) It’s not been the thousands Euros that’ve been mentioned…
Rafa: It’s been many millions that I’ve paid to this country. That's what I have to do as a citizen, but the thing is I have done it. And it hurts me a lot that someone like me gets involved in this kind of thing, and plus, the moment Spain is going through, I understand things are very sensitive, and the situation hurts me deeply because I have friends, close family members who are having a hard time…
Then they start to just talk about Spain’s economical situation.
The journalist asks him about the tax issue, that it’s been said that he’s paid very little taxes.
Rafa: Well, first of all, as you can imagine, I haven’t controlled these issues all of these years. I’ve been playing tennis and there’s a team who takes care of these things, no?.
Due to what’s been on the news on these last few weeks, naturally I’ve been worried and I’ve informed myself of how the whole situation is. And the real situation is very far from what’s been on the news.
Q: (Asks again if it’s true that he’s paid very little taxes, that especially considering the situation in Spain. If what’s been reported is true whether he knew it or not).
Rafa: Look, I started to play tennis when I was very little, Back then from what I understand assessors came along and to offer the opportunity to go live outside of Spain, with a completely different tax system, it was decided we would stay here in Spain… but well, we have relationships with people from San Sebastian (the place where the companies were located, I guess), since many, many years, in a personal level as in an business level. Through them we were offered the possibility of locating the companies in (a place which name I don’t quite understand). In theory there were tax advantages, always in a legal way…
Journalists says that it is indeed legal.
Rafa: Badly advised, the societies were located there. The (tax) advantages have not been such, and last year the societies were moved to Mallorca. I understand Spain is going through a very complicated moment, I understand that these things that have come out about me might upset many people who are having a hard time, because the same would have been the case with me, if I had been one of these people who are having a hard time and I had seen someone like me and hears this about him, that he makes a lot of money and pays very little, well, evidently Id think it-s wrong. But that has not been the case.
Q: (around 6:30) It has been published you pay very little taxes, to close the issue, that you’ve only paid some thousands Euros in taxes, is this so?.
Rafa: The thing is that the information that’s been published is very far from the reality. We published a statement, I thought it had clarified things, I can see that’s not the case, but first, it’s a personal issue and I find it hard to talk about it because I’ve never done it but, it’s going to be the only time I’m going to and not again, because with the moments we’re going through (Spain) I don’t think it’s good either to say how much I’ve paid or I’ve made. But one has to understand that I, Rafael Nadal, have always had my tax residence in Mallorca, so I’ve always paid taxes in Spain. Then, the societies have indeed been for several years in (that place in Spain) that in theory offered some benefits that haven’t been so. My biggest earnings are from outside from Spain, as much in a personal level as with these societies, get their biggest earnings from outside from Spain, so the earnings, first of all, you pay taxes in the place of origin (of the earnings), always, and then you pay taxes in Spain. And that’s the way it’s been… and it’s very hard for me to say it, but these societies, in the years they’ve been there, have paid more than 20 million Euros. And I, on a personal level, have paid a very similar amount. In the end, it’s many million Euros that I’ve paid…
Q: (around 8:23) It’s not been the thousands Euros that’ve been mentioned…
Rafa: It’s been many millions that I’ve paid to this country. That's what I have to do as a citizen, but the thing is I have done it. And it hurts me a lot that someone like me gets involved in this kind of thing, and plus, the moment Spain is going through, I understand things are very sensitive, and the situation hurts me deeply because I have friends, close family members who are having a hard time…
Then they start to just talk about Spain’s economical situation.