{"id":57465,"date":"2026-03-12T15:35:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T19:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/argentinian-fa-head-appears-in-court-over-tax-case\/12\/03\/2026\/"},"modified":"2026-03-12T15:35:00","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T19:35:00","slug":"argentinian-fa-head-appears-in-court-over-tax-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/argentinian-fa-head-appears-in-court-over-tax-case\/12\/03\/2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Argentinian FA head appears in court over tax case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Argentina&#8217;s football chief Claudio Tapia appeared before a court in Buenos Aires in a tax case against his association (AFA) on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We did what the judge wanted,&#8221; he said as he left the court building.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>According to local media reports, he did not comment verbally on the allegations but submitted a written statement more than 100 pages long.<\/p>\n<p>Association treasurer Pablo Toviggino had done the same the previous day.<\/p>\n<p>The tax authority accuses the football association of failing to remit taxes and social security contributions to the treasury on time in 2024 and 2025.<\/p>\n<p>As a result, debts of 19 billion pesos ($13 million) had accumulated, the authority said.<\/p>\n<p>The AFA argues this is a misunderstanding and says part of the debt has been repaid.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/articles\/argentinian-fa-head-appears-court-191436273.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Argentina&rsquo;s football chief Claudio Tapia appeared before a court in Buenos Aires in a tax case against his association (AFA) on Thursday.<br \/><button class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/argentinian-fa-head-appears-in-court-over-tax-case\/12\/03\/2026\/\">Read More &rsaquo;<\/a><\/button><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":57466,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/os\/en\/dpa_international_526\/bdfaa2f805fba2593359fd274cb20cce","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57465"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57465\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}