The following is a translation of a feature article published on the Spanish news platform El Independiente:
The international law firm Amsterdam & Partners, headed by American lawyer
Robert Amsterdam , stirred things up again this Sunday with the publication of a controversial advertisement against the Spanish Tax Agency in the
Financial Times . According to Amsterdam, dozens of self-employed individuals and small business owners in Spain have contacted him in recent days, a move he interprets as the beginning of a shift in the country’s political climate. “Spaniards are starting to lose their fear of the Tax Agency,” he told the newspaper.The lawyer has repeatedly emphasized that his intention is to litigate against the Spanish Tax Agency in every national and international court to which he has access. This announcement in one of the world’s most influential newspapers is not an isolated incident: just a few weeks ago, at a press conference in New York, he announced that he had contacted the Trump administration to report that Spain uses servers from the Chinese company Huawei , something which, according to him, could jeopardize the tax data of American taxpayers.
“After the ad we published in the Financial Times, we received dozens of calls from freelancers and small businesses. The situation is changing. People want to be heard. We’re not looking for clients, but rather testimonies from tax evasion victims to file lawsuits in international courts,” he now says.
Amsterdam argues that the Tax Agency’s practices have already been flagged by Spanish courts: “The National Court has already ruled that publishing an unverified list of tax debtors illegally promotes public dishonor. It is one of the many actions that the Tax Agency carries out, violating the rule of law.”
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