FC Barcelona official announcement

FC Barcelona wishes to refute the news story published today Thursday 11 May 2023 in El Confidencial under the headline: “Barça fined 15 million by Tax Office after detecting payments to players with Audi cars and charter flights”.

Specifically FC Barcelona makes the following remarks and corrections with regarded to the published article:

That the club was inspected for the 2015/2016 and 2017/2018 financial years, the inspection closing in July 2021.

The Tax Office did not impose sanctions with regard to any of the supposed irregularities described by El Confidencial in its article. 

The sanctions that the article describes, and which were appealed before the Central Administrative Financial Court, referred to a different matter, which was the tax applicable to payments to players' agents.

In this regard, Barça would like to stress that in April 2023, the Central Administrative Financial Court accepted the appeal lodged by the club's lawyers, cancelling the fines relating to the Income Tax (IRPF) and Non-Resident Income Tax. It is hoped that the fines relating to Value Added Tax (IVA), also on the matter of tax on payments to players' agents, will also be cancelled shortly.

The club demands rectification of the said information.