Many footballers take advantage of their large financial cushion to invest. Investment has proven to be an option for them, who seek to keep their accounts healthy once they finish their sports careers. And speaking of business, the name Cristiano Ronaldo quickly comes to mind.
A celebrity who has turned his image into a million-dollar empire, and who decided to quickly invest in different businesses, although it is now that one of them ‘turns him upside down’, the Insparya Medical Clinic hair transplant clinics.
A company against which the Tax Agency has opened a file for issuing invoices without VAT to hundreds of clients between 2019 and 2021, as exclusively reported ‘The confidential’. From the business they point out that alopecia “is a disease”, and that “medical services of diagnosis, prevention, treatment and cure” are exempt from the tax, although the Treasury thinks that these transplants are for “purely aesthetic purposes”, and must include 21% VAT.
From the aforementioned media they have had access to the file that the Tax Agency opened for Cristiano Ronaldo’s company, and in which Georgina Rodríguez is an administrator. In it you can see various requests from the inspectors, such as bank statements from eight accounts owned by them, cash payments, and “an anonymized list of patients with the interventions performed.”
The file was opened in February 2022, and it was this May when the Treasury concluded the proceedings, agreeing to “the opening of the hearing process” so that Insparya could treat the regularization of the taxes as they considered, to which they responded that they were going to leave the case in the hands of their lawyers, claiming that they have complied with “all current legislation on tax, labor, health, regulatory and any other nature.”
In a report from June 2022, the inspectors sought to demonstrate that these treatments were “purely aesthetic,” and to do so they went to the company’s offices in Madrid to “view the photos taken of the different clients,” consulting “randomly.” “What the entity’s computer program calls initial evaluations, located within the clinical process of eight patients, with seven of them having various photos of the state of their scalp.”
In addition, the Tax Agency asked Insparya to justify the “deductibility” of expenses in “hotels, meals and trips”, and the invoices in which VAT did not appear, such as in “hair microtransplant, mesotherapy and high-density plasma” services. platelets.”
Insparya defends that alopecia is a disease
For its part, from the company that Cristiano co-founded, they delivered a report from the World Health Organization (WHO) and the expert opinion of a doctor specialized in dermatology in which they defended that alopecia is a disease, and that they required a “medical treatment” of transplant, in order to justify that they did not charge VAT.
“It is not questionable that the treatment of the disease of alopecia leads to an aesthetic improvement in a large part of the patients subjected to said treatment, but the objective of this treatment is not only aesthetic, but also medical, such as the placement of a prosthesis to a patient who has lost a limb,” the expert report states.
From Insparya, they point out that the company “belongs to a Portuguese group specialized in the management of medical clinics dedicated to the treatment and cure of the disease of alopecia, in its different classifications and presentations.”
2023-11-02 14:53:42
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