IRS says, "Pay your taxes, kids!", Wesley Snipes is going to jail.

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Posted by ReenTeenTeen on Feb-02-2008 03:21:

IRS says, "Pay your taxes, kids!", Wesley Snipes is going to jail.

WESLEY Snipes, the Hollywood action star, faces up to three years in jail after being convicted of failing to file tax returns last night.

He was found not guilty of tax fraud and conspiracy charges.

Snipes, 45, and two co-defendants, a de-licensed accountant and a tax protest leader, were first charged in 2006.

Snipes had been accused of six counts of willful failure to file a tax return from 1999 to 2004, a period in which he signed two contracts for more than �5 million on films in the Blade trilogy.

At the court in Orcala, Florida, he was acquitted on three of those charges. For the remaining three he could be sentenced to three years in prison after originally facing a possible 16 years.

Co-defendants Eddie Ray Kahn, the founder of a tax protest group, and Douglas Rosile, a de-licensed accountant, were convicted by the same jury of tax fraud and conspiracy.

Robert Bernhoft, a lawyer for Snipes, who starred in White Men Can't Jump, claimed he was waiting for tax inspectors to answer his inquiries about his need to file returns, and always stood "ready to pay and file".

Mr Bernhoft said Snipes got no meaningful response from inspectors to his requests for interviews, conferences, appeals and audits.

The full article contains 223 words and appears in The Scotsman newspaper.Last Updated: 01 February 2008 11:45 PM

Posted by Burak14 on Feb-02-2008 04:00:

Did he really think it was going to go any other way? Maybe they'll let him out of jail soon so Sly and keep the streak of the old movies coming back and they can make Demolition Man II! lol

Posted by AddictedTo1982 on Feb-02-2008 04:19:

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Originally posted by Burak14
Did he really think it was going to go any other way? Maybe they'll let him out of jail soon so Sly and keep the streak of the old movies coming back and they can make Demolition Man II! lol

Ummm he was broken in ice

Posted by jerZ07002 on Feb-02-2008 06:28:

Re: IRS says, "Pay your taxes, kids!", Wesley Snipes is going to jail.

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Originally posted by ReenTeenTeen
Mr Bernhoft said Snipes got no meaningful response from inspectors to his requests for interviews, conferences, appeals and audits.

OK.....

if there was a request for an appeal there necessarily was an audit, interviews were highly likely, and conferences were similarly likely. my guess is that snipes ignored all requests made by the IRS, a deficiency judgement was made, no appeal was made, and the IRS came to collect. The fact that he was advised by a tax protest group seemingly confirms this. Just pay your taxes people. The IRS is the ultimate collections agency.