The first two years of the pandemic were fruitful for businessman Alberto González Amador, partner of Isabel Díaz Ayuso. It invoiced 3.7 million euros, of which almost two came from a single operation to mediate a contract for the purchase and sale of masks. And, when the time came to justify those large profits to the Treasury, he tried to deceive the treasury. He did it through a network of false invoices and front companies, but also trying to deduct expenses not related to his professional activity, such as a repair to his Porsche, the purchase of a luxury watch, paddle balls or a saxophone.
Alarms went off in the Treasury when its officials discovered that in 2020 the profits of his company had multiplied, but his tax bill for Corporate Tax had even been reduced. The Tax Agency considered “extremely striking” that that year its turnover grew by almost two million and, however, it paid half the taxes than in 2019. The inspectors pulled the thread and found a corporate conspiracy based in the Sevillian town of Arahal that had issued invoices to its main company, Maxwell Cremona, for work that had never been carried out. They also located invoices for non-existent or failed projects in Mexico and the Ivory Coast.
There are a total of 1.7 million euros in 15 invoices for work not performed that, in practice, were charged as expenses to González Amador’s company with the aim of paying less taxes at a time when its tax had been raised. billing. This operation has led to him being charged with two tax crimes for having defrauded 350,000 euros in competition with another for falsifying documents that he himself has acknowledged in his negotiations with the Prosecutor’s Office to agree on a compliant sentence that prevents him from going to prison.
The Treasury investigations have revealed that this network of false invoices was not González Amador’s only strategy to optimize and minimize his taxes. When the Tax Agency asked him for documentation after opening an inspection, he tried to deduct expenses such as the purchase of a Rolex, repairs to his Porsche Panamera, paddle balls, a saxophone and even other items of daily use such as deodorant or dental floss.
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The deduction of expenses in the tax return of a company or an individual is one of the most common battles between the Treasury and the taxpayer. It has no criminal consequences, although many times it is the contentious-administrative judges who have to end up deciding whether or not a purchase is a deductible expense. The debate is usually whether or not the product in question has anything to do with professional activity.
The tax inspection to which González Amador was subjected after the turnover of his main company multiplied with the arrival of the pandemic and the need to find masks and medical supplies revealed that he tried to further optimize his tax return. Within the framework of these investigations, their tax advisors delivered to the Tax Agency a list of more than a hundred “deductible expenses”, according to the documentation provided by Cadena SER and which elDiario.es has examined.
Thus, the commission agent presented expenses on paddle balls, mouthwash, toothpaste, deodorant, dental floss, shampoo and even supermarket bags. He also tried to pass off a saxophone as an expense related to his company, which specializes in health consulting and environmental promotion, or the purchase of various luxury items: a Rolex worth more than 8,000 euros purchased in Ibiza or 1,500 euros in car repairs. Porsche Panamera: the front shock absorber, headlights and brushes. Another expense was a bill for 754.50 euros for thirty bottles of wine purchased at a winery in Valladolid.
These expenses also include renting a car in Ibiza during a weekend spent on the island in May 2021 in the company of Díaz Ayuso. It was the getaway with which the relationship between the two was revealed to the media. This is an invoice for 195.08 euros (plus VAT) for the rental of a category 1 vehicle from the Sixt company.
The rental of that car in Ibiza is not the only expense that González Amador enjoyed in 2021 together with the president at the expense of his company after giving the two million euros hit. He also covered the bills for an 11-day vacation that he enjoyed in the summer of that year in Croatia and Greece in the company of Díaz Ayuso. In this case, González Amador attempted to charge those expenses as deductibles. The Madrid Government has assured that “all the expenses incurred” by the president on her personal trips “are paid by her.”
González Amador’s attempts to reduce as much as possible the payments to the Treasury of his company Maxwell Cremona were discovered by the Tax Agency. Months later, he changed his strategy when he saw a criminal trial approaching. He tried to withdraw some invoices considered false and pay his debts at once. When he verified that he was not going to be able to reduce the punishment, he requested a refund. It is a movement that Díaz Ayuso’s team tried to use to affirm that it was the Treasury that, in reality, owed money to the president’s partner.
Two years after the beginning of the Tax Agency’s investigations, the case against González Amador has been split in two. The main ramification of the case continues to revolve around double tax fraud and its possible agreement with the Prosecutor’s Office, while recently the judge has accepted the request of PSOE and Más Madrid to expand the investigations to their business relationship with the Quirón Group and its subsidiaries. . For the moment, he has offered to accept eight months in prison and pay more than half a million euros to settle his debts, fines and interest in exchange for not spending a day in prison if convicted.
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