The National Court has sentenced the producer of the actor and director Santiago Segura to pay a fine of 827,183.39 euros, estimating that he tried to benefit from “double tax use of the same loss”, in a declaration of the Corporation Tax of the period 2010-2011.
In this way, the contentious court of the National Court has rejected the appeal filed in 2019 by the business group AE William Holding S.L., to which the production company Amiguetes belongs, owned by the director and producer of the Torrente film saga.
The ruling acknowledges that the issue is “legally controversial” and that the appellants’ thesis is based on a precedent established by the Chamber itself, therefore it exempts them from paying the procedural costs.
The procedure began in 2013, when the Tax Agency began an inspection in which it analyzed a series of accounting and business operations that would have led the producer Amiguetes to avoid paying hundreds of thousands of euros.
In 2016, the Treasury issued a settlement agreement that denied the possibility of compensating Amiguetes’ losses from 2008 that had already been fully provisioned and deducted by the group and also demanded the payment of an added penalty of more than 700,000 euros.
The group to which the producer belongs filed a claim before the Central Economic-Administrative Court whose resolution, dated February 14, 2019, eliminated the obligation to pay that penalty but insisted on claiming the amount corresponding to the liquidation.
That resolution is the one that the holding had appealed to the National Court that has now handed down its sentence, against which it is possible to appeal.
