An official document published on Wednesday revealed that Paris Saint-Germain forward Neymar owes more unpaid tax than any other inpidual on a Spanish authorities' blacklist with debts of €34.6 million.
The document, titled “List of Debtors”, includes thousands of inpiduals and companies with “more than one million euros in debt", according to the Spanish tax authorities.
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According to AFP, the Spanish tax office did not say whether Neymar's presence on the list was linked to his 2013 transfer to Barcelona from Brazilian club Santos.
Barca reported that the deal cost €57.1 million but according to Spanish authorities the club paid €83.3 million for the attacker.
On other hand, the Brazilian, who played for Barcelona from 2013 to 2017 before moving to the French club for 222 million euros in the most expensive transfer in history, tops the list of thousands of names published on the website of the Spanish tax office.
The Spanish press reported last year the country's tax authorities were pursuing Neymar for fiscal fraud dating back to his time at Barca, but it is the first time the information has been officially confirmed.
In June, a Spanish court dismissed the forward's case against the club and told him to pay 6.79 million euros to the outfit, who claimed he had violated his deal.
Noteworthy, Neymar is by no means the only football figure to have been pursued by the Spanish treasury.
His former Barcelona teammate Lionel Messi, as well as ex-Real Madrid striker Cristiano Ronaldo, have both agreed financial settlements after being pursued in the Spanish courts, according to The National.
Also, in January 2019, Ronaldo, now at the Italian side Juventus, was handed a suspended two-year prison sentence for committing tax fraud while he was in Madrid.
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