Arnold Schwarzenegger, had an IRS tax lien filed against him totaling about $79,000. The lien was filed against the California Governor May 11th in Los Angeles County. Supposedly, the Governor owes about $39k from 2004 and $40k from 2005. The lien documentation was posted online by TMZ yesterday. A governor's spokesman said ... Read More
Celebrities
Michael Phelps Owes $23K in Back Taxes
Olympic gold medal winner Michael Phelps owes the State of California $23 thousand in back taxes for the years 2005 and 2006. The State of California filed a tax lien on Phelps in order to secure payment of these taxes. When a tax lien is filed it becomes public information that the person who the lien was filed against owes ... Read More
Big Boi of OutKast Owes $55K in Back Taxes
OutKast Member Big Boi (Antwan Patton) is reported to owe the IRS $55,000 in back taxes. The state of Georgia filed a tax lien against Antwan Patton and his wife on June 1st. He is the latest rapper/celeb who has fallen into trouble with the IRS. OutKast has become one of the most successful groups of all time. It makes you ... Read More
Aaron Carter Owes Over $1 Million in IRS Back Taxes
Aaron Carter is a pop and hip hop singer from the late 1990s who is the brother of Singer Nicker Carter, from the Backstreet Boys. He has also been an acting career in which he had parts in television series including The Teenage Witch, 7th Heaven, and Lizzie McGuire. Aaron recently came back into the spotlight from being on ... Read More
Flavor Flav Owes $183K+ in Back Taxes
Flavor Flav (William Jonathan Drayton Jr.) who is a member of Public Enemy, also a TV star has been hit with an IRS tax lien for owing the state of California over $183K in back taxes. Flavor Flav is known for yelling "yeah boy" and "Flavor FLAV" during on stage performances of his rap group. He also stands because he always ... Read More
Edward Rollins Owes $1.24 Million in IRS Back Taxes
Ed Rollins, a political campaign consultant - and known for his work as Republican Director for Reagan in 1984, Co-Manager for Perot's Campaign in 1992, and Whitman's in 1993 for NJ, and recently for Mike Huckabee's campaign, owes the IRS about $1.24 million in federal taxes. Rollins, according to public records and The Detroit ... Read More
Nas Owes the IRS $2.5 Million in Back Taxes
NAS, who real birth name is, Nasir bin Olu Dara Jones, was hit with a $2.5 million dollar tax for unpaid taxes between 2006-2007. According to the IRS, who filed a tax lien against the rapper, he did not pay taxes for 2006 and 2007. This recent rapper joins the ranks of Method Man, who was recently reported to be in trouble ... Read More
Darryl Strawberry Owes More Than $500K in Back Taxes
Darryl Strawberry, the former MLB All-Star, New York Mets and New York Yankees star who has faced tax problems (like some other former Mets players) in the past owes over $550,000 when totaling California state and IRS back taxes. Strawberry was well known as a home-run hitter with a large presence in the batters box. Darryl is ... Read More
Wu-Tang Clan’s Method Man Arrested for Owing $33K in Back Taxes
Clifford Smith (aka Method Man) of the Wu-Tang Clan has been avoiding paying his taxes as far back as 2004. Today at 8 a.m., Method Man went to the Staten Island DA's office to turn himself in for felony charges he received for not paying $33,000 in IRS back taxes. Method Man is a Grammy-winning hip hop artist who won a Grammy ... Read More
Floyd Mayweather Agrees to Pay His Back Taxes, Over $5M
Floyd Mayweather was poised to make some big money with his come back to fight with Juan Manuel Marquez. Mayweather had owed the IRS back taxes for quite some time now and they were quite aware of the earnings potential for this fight. The minimum take home for Mayweather would have been $3.2 million, but if he were to win, this ... Read More
Chrysler Group’s CEO Jim Press Owes About $1M in IRS Back Taxes
Chrysler CEO Jim Press has close to $1 million in IRS back taxes and is even being sued by his credit union (Western Federal Credit Union) for defaulting on a $609k mortgage loan, The Detroit News reports. As many people know tax liens become public knowledge, and the IRS filed a $947k tax lien against Jim Press stating that he ... Read More
Anna Nicole Smith Dead, But CA Still Wants Back Taxes
TMZ reported just hours ago, that Anna Nicole Smith, when she passed, owed about $35k in back taxes from earnings in 2006. Now with tax interest and penalties added, she owes about $43k in taxes and cash-strapped California is trying to collect as the legal process of distributing her property and resolving all claims called ... Read More