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Bikes, Hints'n'Tips => Diesels and Lawnmowers (Bike racing n things) => Topic started by: robbo on 11 June 2020, 01:16:51 pm

Title: Sito Pons maybe jailed.
Post by: robbo on 11 June 2020, 01:16:51 pm: Sito Pons accused of claiming false residency in Monaco and London in order to avoid Spanish taxes. The prosecutor is demanding a 24 year jail term, a 12 million euro fine plus back taxes of 2.7 million euros.Wow :eek .
Title: Re: Tito Pons maybe jailed.
Post by: coffee on 18 June 2020, 05:18:11 pm: Have heard of Sito Pons in our world but not Tito,is this a relation ?
Title: Re: Sito Pons maybe jailed.
Post by: robbo on 18 June 2020, 06:15:54 pm: My fat fingers sorry. :lol Yep it is Sito and have edited my initial post. Looks like the Spanish tax people have got it in for him, but apparently he has submitted his UK tax payment paperwork as evidence of his innocense.
Title: Re: Sito Pons maybe jailed.
Post by: slappy on 19 June 2020, 10:36:15 am: He needs the same lawyers who Max Biaggi used in 2013, 2015 (https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-motorcycling-biaggi-tax/former-champion-biaggi-faces-tax-evasion-trial-source-idUKKCN0S11WL20151007) and 2019 (https://www.morebikes.co.uk/news/56589/max-biaggi-accused-of-tax-evasion-could-face-year-in-prison/) and Valentino Rossi in 2008 (https://www.espn.co.uk/racing/news/story?id=3241995&seriesId=99) and 2015 (https://www.autoevolution.com/news/valentino-rossi-appears-on-a-list-of-suspected-tax-evasionists-lawyer-says-he-s-been-clean-since-2008-92090.html) and Carmelo Ezpeleta and Forward Racing boss Giovanni Cuzari.[/size
]They do like a bit of tax evasion in the MotoGP paddock.
Title: Re: Sito Pons maybe jailed.
Post by: coffee on 19 June 2020, 01:02:42 pm: WOW! never knew any of this 'till I read up about it,but like most I hate the tax people so anyone who gets away with it good luck to 'em,then again the likes of Starbucks etc that's not right is it?
Title: Re: Sito Pons maybe jailed.
Post by: slappy on 19 June 2020, 06:09:48 pm: When you see the amounts they owe it makes you wonder what their overall earnings really are, not begrudging them it though.