Filed under: Taxes, Celebrities, Audits, Income Tax, Tax Laws
A review of famous names who've made the news in recent years for owing the IRS turns up a few patterns. Tax scofflaw celebrities aren't usually the sort of figures known as "A-Listers" -- and if they are, they tend to be somewhere past their prime. Claims of financial mismanagement often figure into celebrities' financial misfortunes. There's often a significant amount of marital discord behind the fiscal issues as well.
A USA Today report headlined "Celebrities are often in debt to the tax man" was somewhat sympathetic to the plight of famous tax delinquents, explaining that "celebrities and entertainers -- unlike most taxpayers -- often have huge incomes that vary wildly from year to year -- an easy recipe for tax trouble.
Here's a roundup of some of the more infamous celebrity tax dodgers.
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