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00:00Porque yo soy kind, soy un hombre dulce.
00:04O sea, yo no diría el término pickpockets.
00:07Hay mucho más agresivos términos que yo diría
00:11sobre las personas que comportan como la agencia se comporta,
00:14personas que son tan cruel,
00:17personas que toman las últimas posiciones de los ciudadanos de España.
00:21Están heartless y cruel,
00:25y son una organización secreta.
00:29No disclosan lo que están haciendo.
00:32Son una forma para los gobiernos españoles
00:35básicamente harvesteros y monedos que no están suficientes
00:41para que los políticos puedan actualizar taxas
00:46sin decirle a nadie.
00:48Así que hay mucho peor palabras que yo diría que pickpockets.
00:52No es un sistema de taxa.
00:55A tax system, using the word tax,
01:00provides what I call in English the term is a presumption of regularity.
01:07You think they're like a normal taxpayer collection agency
01:13which behaves normally in a democratic society,
01:17so the individual is treated fairly.
01:20He is given the presumption of innocence.
01:23They are allowed to appeal if an assessor is wrong.
01:28But that's not the case in Spain.
01:31Spain is a situation where tax inspectors
01:36only can achieve livable standards
01:40by engaging in very aggressive, hostile activity with the public.
01:46They have to raise assessments, raise money any way they can
01:52within or outside the law.
01:55And knowing that the individual, if he is going to appeal,
02:00it will take him years to appeal
02:02and he will have to basically put up all the money that's being demanded
02:10before he can appeal.
02:12And if he does appeal, he can be put in a situation where,
02:17if he loses, he faces life-ending cataclysmic financial situations
02:24because you have to pay interest and very large penalties,
02:28penalties that are almost uniquely large in Europe.
02:32Oh, it's all dinero. It's all money.
02:35It's just money.
02:38This is why we call them pickpockets.
02:41Pickpockets don't always look for the poor people.
02:44They often look for the rich people.
02:46So the hacienda has gone to a rich area,
02:49which is these people they think are relatively rich
02:53because what the hacienda does is they not only attack a Beckham person
02:59for his income here, they attack him.
03:04They disallow him as a Beckham person.
03:07They make him a full Spanish tax resident.
03:10Then they charge him the wealth tax for all his worldwide assets,
03:14even though when he moved here they promised him they wouldn't do that.
03:19I can tell you many Spanish law firms tell me that they won't say a word against hacienda because they're scared.
03:30So I don't take the word of hostages.
03:33And these law firms are all hostages.
03:36Everyone in this country is scared of hacienda.
03:40No, I think that's complete crap.
03:43I don't think that's true at all.
03:44I think what happened here is the inspectors want to take as much money as they can from the wealthy people,
03:53just like they do with the poor people.
03:55And the Beckham law folks look like a good target.
03:59Again, wouldn't you do this?
04:02You're not punished for being wrong.
04:05And the numbers that the hacienda says are really funny because they've never complied with a court order
04:15to tell people how much the inspectors make.
04:20They keep lying.
04:22If we're wrong, then publish.
04:25What are the inspectors making?
04:27How much of it comes from the bonus?
04:29They have refused to do that.
04:32They come out with bullshit numbers that tell you nothing.
04:36And they lie.
04:38And they cheat.
04:40And they attack Spanish and foreign taxpayers.
04:44It is complete.
04:47And by the way, they have events.
04:50They sponsor events where they meet with the Supreme Court.
04:54That is completely inappropriate.
04:57Completely inappropriate.
04:59But it's a regular event.
05:01People in this country need to wake up to the fact that Spain is not a complete democracy
05:08if the hacienda can pick your pocket without rule of law.
05:11Listen, the question that always surprises me is the one we just discussed,
05:19which is why have people in Spain not done anything about it?
05:24How do we live like this?
05:28How do we see this happening to our neighbors?
05:31You guys, no offense to Spain, you have your own inquisition going on.
05:37You have hacienda publishing the names of all these poor schmucks who allegedly haven't paid their taxes,
05:46many of whom are innocent.
05:48And you let it happen.
05:50It's a violation of morality.
05:54It's a violation of rule of law.
05:58For those of you who are religious, it's a violation of every teaching of Christ.
06:04How do you let this happen?
06:07How do you let people be destroyed like this?
06:11How do you go into restaurants knowing that the poor guy at the front wants cash
06:17because he's about to go out of business because hacienda seized everything else?
06:23You see it every day with your friends, your family and your business people and yet you do nothing.
06:29You don't make it a political issue.
06:31You let the government continue to lie to you and cheat you and have corruption crisis after corruption crisis.
06:39There's no difference between the right and the left in this country when it comes to these issues.
06:45You have no one to vote for that is actually seeming to care about the fiscal security of your country.
06:56Now, I have to say, incompetence is a cancer all over Europe.
07:02Spain is not alone with an incompetent government.
07:06And in fact, the Spanish economic news has been generally good.
07:12The problem is it won't stay good because the interior foundation is rotting away.
07:19Your biggest industry is tourism and people in Barcelona right now are taking guns to tourists.
07:25Now they're water guns.
07:27This summer, who knows what kind of guns they'll be.
07:30But the funny thing is you're not building other industries.
07:34So it's a tremendous challenge.
07:36No, no, I cannot compare them.
07:39There is no comparison.
07:41I will not insult the other tax agencies.
07:44Spain stands alone in its absolute abandonment of rule of law.
07:51Now, I have heard Portugal has some similar issues, but not as bad.
07:56But in reality, you know, in some countries you have bonuses, but they're very modest.
08:03In other countries, you have to pay the tax you owe.
08:06But you have an easy way to go to court to try to appeal.
08:11Nothing compares to what I said in the press conferences to your four gates of hell.
08:18The phony Beckham certificate, the incentivized assessments, the court system, the administrative system that the European Union says isn't even a court system.
08:31The length of time to appeal.
08:34And then simulation, this weird concept that means even when a taxpayer is honest, he's a crook.
08:43Now, you guys are alone.
08:44I mean, you want me to make a comparison, maybe Russia.
08:48But even with respect to Russia, they have a much lower tax rate.
08:53I mean, you know, I can't speak to Spanish corruption versus Russian corruption.
09:00I don't want to make that comparison because I don't want to offend Mr. Putin.
09:05But the corruption here is endemic.
09:12It goes on to an extent that is almost hard to imagine.
09:18And, you know, in all seriousness, you can't look at the tax agency in isolation.
09:28You have to see it as part of this broader corruption problem, the broader problem of lack of rule of law.
09:37And, you know, I don't want to take my Putin joke out of context.
09:42Obviously, Russian corruption is much worse, I'm sure.
09:48But Spanish corruption is right up there.
09:51And there seems to be a new case every day.
09:58And it's shameful.
09:59And what's more shameful is you guys don't even have a budget.
10:03I mean, I don't even know how this government can even stand up and take strong political positions on matters when they have no capacity to lead, actually.
10:19They are themselves hostages of other parties.
10:22But, you know, I'm a foreigner and that's just idle thoughts on my part.
10:27When it comes to the tax authority, you know, I've done disputes with governments for 45 years.
10:34And I've never seen a situation where the cancer in government is as quietly controlled as this in a society that's allegedly free and democratic.
10:48You know, I'm banned in seven countries.
10:51I fight oppression all over the world.
10:55But I never thought I'd come to Spain and be fighting oppression and getting letters from poor people who have lost their lives, lost their sanity.
11:06That's something I hear from poor Spanish people.
11:09Please help me because I'm losing my mental health.
11:14That I've never encountered in any other country.
11:17I mean, in Zimbabwe, people have trucks driven over their legs.
11:22That I've encountered.
11:24But the number of Spanish people who write to me to say, please help me.
11:29And we can help them, sadly.
11:31But my mental health is going.
11:34And there are many of them.
11:37And there's this movie that's on our website called Heteros Bravados.
11:43I don't know if you've seen it.
11:46But it's about a poor man who lost his sanity.
11:50He's now in an asylum.
11:52He lost his family.
11:54He lost his business.
11:57All because of the hacienda.
12:07All because of the US住ains Bravados is breaking it up.
12:11Appliplination is breaking it.
12:14normaleosan Bravados
12:18They're making a difference.
12:19I wasn't going to be watching TV snowing ever in Nebenworgons.
12:23Things you're showing.
12:24They just reais on top of your screen.
12:32But this is the heroine.