January 15, 2008
Wesley Snipes, tax denier
Wesley Snipes to Go on Trial in Tax Case - New York TimesWesley Snipes to Go on Trial in Tax Case
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By DAVID CAY JOHNSTON
Published: January 14, 2008Correction Appended
From 1999 to 2004, the actor Wesley Snipes earned $38 million appearing in more than half a dozen movies, including two sequels to his popular vampire thriller “Blade.”
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Peter Cosgrove / AP File PhotoActor Wesley Snipes with his press assistant Judy Smith in December 2006. The 45-year-old action star is set to go on trial Monday, Jan. 14, 2008, on tax fraud and conspiracy charges.
The taxes he paid in the same period? Zero.
But unlike other celebrities who find themselves on the wrong side of the Internal Revenue Service, Mr. Snipes has a flamboyant explanation: he argues that he is not actually required to pay taxes.
Mr. Snipes, who is scheduled to go on trial Monday in Ocala, Fla., has become an unlikely public face for the antitax movement, whose members maintain that Americans are not obligated to pay income taxes and that the government extracts taxes from its citizens illegally.
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Posted by TY at January 15, 2008 10:07 AM
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