the EU court against the EU’s competition commissioner, Margrethe Vestager, in a tax case against several Spanish best clubs.
Thus, the court of justice, which is the second highest in the EU, certainly, to four Spanish football clubs, including FC Barcelona and Real Madrid still have not received illegal state aid.
It was otherwise, as the EU’s competition committee, with Margrethe Vestager, in the lead reached in 2016, where the sanctioned clubs to pay millions of dollars back to the authorities.
The new EU ruling saying that the EUROPEAN Commission has ‘failed in its assessment of the facts’.
the Case stretches back to 1990, from which the Spanish football clubs have paid less in tax, because the clubs have been exempted from the provisions of the Spanish sportslovgivning that elitefodboldklubber must be public limited companies.
The four of clubs is in addition to Barcelona and Real Madrid also Athletic Bilbao and Atlético Osasuna.
the EUROPEAN Commission estimates that the four Spanish clubs than having to pay five million euros (37.5 million dollars) back.
Professional football is a commercial activity that involves a lot of money, and public money must comply with fair competition rules, said Margrethe Vestager, after the verdict in 2016.
the Case has been in the EU since 2009. It has been criticised for the long duration.
Margrethe Vestager has been overruled in the case of skattestraf for the Spanish big clubs. Photo: Melissa Kühn Hjerrild
