Supermodel Bar Refaeli avoids jail for tax evasion but her mother to serve time
evoke.ieAssociated Press, the 35-year-old will be doing nine months of community service while for mother will be spending 16 months in jail.Both have also been ordered to pay back $1.5m in order to make up for the taxes they hadn’t paid over the years to Israel.The case is made on allegations that Bar and her mother provided incorrect tax information based on her primary residency during the best years of her modelling career, including her time in a relationship with Leonardo DiCaprio from 2006 to 2011.According to the reports, tax in Israel is based on whether someone spends the majority of the calendar year living there or not and Bar had claimed she hadn’t been there for most of her career in the early 2000s.The supermodel stated that she had.
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