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Wesley Snipes
In 2008, Wesley Snipes was convicted on three misdemeanor counts of failing to file tax returns from 1999 to 2001. During this time, he kept $7 million in taxes from the federal government, reported the New York Daily News.
The “Blade” actor was sentenced to three years in a Pennsylvania federal prison. He began serving in December 2010, before being released to house arrest in April 2013, which Reuters reported was scheduled to end July 19, 2013.
But Snipes’ tax woes didn’t end there. In November of 2018, Snipes was ordered by the Internal Revenue Service to pay $9.5 million in back taxes, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
Ja Rule
In March 2011, rapper Ja Rule — whose real name is Jeffrey Atkins — pled guilty to failing to file tax returns on more than $3 million in income, reported The Washington Post. He was sentenced to 28 months in prison and agreed to pay $1.1 million in back taxes, according to the Los Angeles Times. He scored an early release from prison in May 2013, and the BBC reported he would remain on home confinement until July 28, 2013.
Darryl Strawberry
In December 1994, Darryl Strawberry and his agent were indicted on federal tax evasion charges, alleging the troubled baseball star failed to report more than $500,000 in earned income from 1986 to 1990, reported USA Today. In February 1995, Strawberry pled guilty and was sentenced to three months in prison and three months of house arrest, according to The New York Times.
Fat Joe
In 2012, rapper Fat Joe — aka Joseph Cartagena — pled guilty to two counts of failing to file taxes with the IRS on more than $3 million in income, reported Reuters. Before his sentencing, he paid $718,000 in back taxes, according to the site.
He was sentenced to four months in prison, a $15,000 fine and one year of supervised release, reported TMZ. BET revealed he scored an early release on Thanksgiving Day in 2013.
Lauryn Hill
In 2013, Lauryn Hill was sentenced to a three-month prison sentence after failing to pay around $1.8 million in taxes from 2005 to 2007, reported the BBC.
And in 2016, it was reported by various sources that Hill was facing tax troubles again. The singer clarified on Twitter that she was not dealing with any new tax issues, but was still working to resolve her previous tax debts.
We'll pay our fair taxes with the cut of the wealth, it's easy for a multi millionaire many times over to say no taxes, but for every Ice Cube there are millions poverty stricken blacks that have to work twice as hard just to be functionally poor while paying their taxes, until that starts to balance out nothing will change.
