And it begins again !
Neymar is in the news again in Spain.
After being held responsible by Bartomeu for the institutional crisis currently affecting Barça, the Brazilian star will again find himself in court against his former club, for a tax issue in relation to his contract.
The management of FC Barcelona has decided to initiate new legal action against the Brazilian star of Paris Saint-Germain, Neymar.
According to information from El Mundo, the Catalan club are claiming 10.2 million euros overpayment from the Brazilian striker during his stint at the club between 2013 and 2017.
A donation from Barça
The Catalan leaders would have been wrong in their calculations during the payment of the taxes of Neymar.
Barça would have paid a gross salary (net + taxes) much higher than what the player's contract mentioned.
As part of the inspection carried out in Barcelona covered until 2015, it is the financial agency called Hacienda that mentions this error.
For its part, the financial inspectorate told the Blaugrana club that if the situation was not rectified, this amount would then be considered as a donation from FC Barcelona to the Brazilian, and the club would therefore be taxable on this amount.
Neymar will have to reimburse the club for the excess received from the extension bonus
The Barcelona court, last June
Last June, Neymar lost another lawsuit against his former club when he demanded the payment of a bonus of 43.6 million euros.
The Auriverde star had been dismissed by the Barcelona court which had ordered him to reimburse 6.8 million euros to his ex-club.
By terminating his Barcelona contract before the end of it, Neymar "was not entitled to receive the sum" he requested, and "will have to reimburse the club for the excess received from the extension bonus, for having terminated his contract without any justification, "the court ruled.
Always very appreciated by his former teammates in the Barça locker room, a departure that had been claimed in 2019 by the most expensive player in history, seems more and more difficult to imagine at Barça in view of these many fights against the Spanish club.
Leonardo confirmed the trend yesterday for the Auriverde striker by evoking a contract extension with PSG.
Definitely queda.
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