Tuesday April 28, Bernard Montiel wanted to bring up a particularly thorny subject live on the show Tonight at baba’s, broadcast daily on C8. A few days ago, Laeticia Hallyday, confined like everyone else, received very bad news: the loss of his lawsuit against the taxman.
Indeed, if Johnny Hallyday has left his widow with staggering sums of money, he has also left behind significant tax debts, which would amount to almost 30 million euros in total ! A sum, part of which should therefore be paid by Laeticia Hallyday, who has just lost the lawsuit started against the French tax administration. According to information from Capital magazine, the trial concerning the tax arrangement of the deceased rocker took place on April 17, 2020. This trial targeted in particular the revenues of the tour Stop there, undertaken by Johnny Hallyday and his musicians between 2009 and 2010.
During all this tour, Johnny Hallyday – or at least the managers of his colossal fortune – would have managed not to dischargeno tax on income generated. Thanks to an ingenious tax arrangement, the father of Jade and Joy would have saved almost 13 million euros. However, it would seem that the tax lawyers of the rock star, now deceased, have not acted perfectly since the French tax authorities have since claimed penalties of around 80%, for “abuse of rights”. Legal action against Johnny Hallyday still not finished when he died, it is therefore his wife Laeticia Hallyday who now owes the obligation to discharge the colossal debts of her late husband. Although his lawyers succeeded in reducing the penalty claimed by the taxman to 40% of total revenue generated by the tour in question, the mother of Jade and Joy will therefore have to settle a very heavy slate.
Laeticia Hallyday hoped to escape the French tax authorities
Bernard Montiel, who returned to the whole thorny affair in the show Tonight at baba’s, wanted to defend Laeticia Hallyday. ” This is just the beginning of Laeticia’s problems [Hallyday, ndlr], because the taxman has been on it for a while “Said the columnist before adding:
” Laeticia, she has nothing to do with it, it was Johnny’s tax specialists who mismanaged the affair, but these 13 million, she owes it, she lost the lawsuit. But there will be other trials behind it, because there will be other problems still. As for the three villas she has in Saint-Barth, they have been hidden too, believe me that the taxman will take care of them. “
Bernard Montiel then insisted on revealing the reaction of Laeticia Hallyday, when she learned the unfortunate news: “I had a very close friend of mine who told me that it was indeed a drama, she hoped to escape . “
However, Laeticia Hallyday, now in a relationship with Pascal Ballandis not one to feel sorry for him.
” In the american trust that she had constituted, which is a kind of tax shield, it was well specified that she always had to maintain her lifestyle, and her lifestyle, she can no longer maintain it, says Bernard Montiel. But I still remember that there is a capital of 100 million, and she got 50 million for the moment since the other 50 million are frozen, so we’re not going to cry too much. “
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