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Poor Bar Refaeli. The Israeli supermodel can’t seem to catch a break (unless you consider having killer looks, gobs of dough and a movie star boyfriend not catching a break).
Bar was recently caught trying to smuggle an iPad into Israel. (Oy, what a shanda!) She had placed her bags through the airport’s nothing-to-declare line at customs, saying all that she was carrying was clothing.
But an X-ray of her luggage revealed that she was also carrying a brand new Apple iPad. As a result, Bar will have to pay at least twice the amount of import tax that she would’ve been charged on the device. (Israel recently lifted a ban allowing personal imports of the iPad into the country.)
BTW, this ain’t Bar’s first run-in with Israeli authorities. Last January, she had the chutzpah to ask the Israel Tax Authority to exempt her from paying taxes because she works mostly abroad. “The center of my life is no longer in Israel,” she said.
As you can imagine, the Israelis weren’t nuts about that request, especially since Ms. Refaeli earned about $2 million over the past two years, according to reports, and paid about 46 percent in taxes in Israel.