Good news for Ana Duato. In recent months, the actress has been involved in several disputes with the Treasury, but good news has finally reached her. Miguel Bernardeau’s mother has managed to get the Treasury to annul a fine of 500,000 euros. The protagonist of Cuéntame cómo pasó has been fighting for some time to demonstrate that there was no type of strategy when she committed tax fraud in various personal income tax returns, after paying taxes for her work through a company and not as a natural person. Now it seems that, finally, there is a ray of light in her torment.
But the actress was not the only one affected by this whole matter, but shares this concern with her co-star in the series, Imanol Arias. She even went so far as to ask for several years in prison for both of them, in addition to the payment of the amounts that they defrauded, with their corresponding surcharges, interest and fines. In fact, the case was baptized as Nummaria, the name of the law firm that allegedly engaged in tax evasion of its clients.
It was in June 2019 when the National Court proposed to try 30 people, including clients, lawyers and three companies, whose purpose was to create companies to defraud millions in amounts. As the Prosecutor’s Office pointed out at the time, Arias would have defrauded 2.78 million between 2009 and 2015. For her part, Ana Duato would have defrauded 1.9 million euros over seven years of income due to the successful series Cuéntame. The actress has tried to catch up with her debts since then, and now it is the Treasury who has had to rectify.
In 2016, before the case came to light, it was when Ana paid a notorious amount, 970,297 euros, corresponding to the years from 2010 to 2012. The fiscal period from 2014 to 2017 has also been updated with 265,427 euros. Now the Tax Agency was demanding a fine of half a million euros for the alleged non-payment of the fiscal years from 2010 to 2012, for which she is already up to date with payments. That is why the agency has recognized that it was a mistake.
“Errors like this have been destroying my family, personal and professional life for seven years,” the interpreter expressed disgust to The Objective newspaper. Despite the fact that it is a lot of money that he has already had to disburse, Duato would still have debts to heal. The actress would pay more than 75,000 euros for surcharges and interest, up to a total of 341,187.94 euros, as revealed by the newspaper La Razón a few weeks ago.
The last thing that has been known about the actress’s case is that the Prosecutor’s Office has requested 32 years in prison for her. Apparently, her lawyers have recommended that she reach an agreement in accordance with Anti-Corruption and the State Attorney’s Office, in order to obtain a minimum sentence. However, Duato is not clear. If she agrees, it would be like admitting to deception on purpose to the Treasury in the 2010, 2011 and 2012 fiscal years. However, the 54-year-old actress continues to defend her innocence, and her goal is to prove that she never wanted to defraud the Treasury.
Even so, the new penalty could be between 12 and 18 months in prison, which could be changed to a fine of between 36,000 and 54,000 euros. In the absence of knowing the exact date of his time on the bench, everything indicates that it will be next autumn when he will have to return to court to face a possible 32-year prison sentence for alleged tax fraud. However, he has now won a battle against the Treasury.
