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IRS Takes on Action Star Snipes in Court

Posted Jan 13, 08 5:30 AM CST in Business,  Gossip,  Crime & Courts,  Arts & Living 

(Newser) – Action movie star Wesley Snipes tomorrow faces his toughest opponent yet: the IRS in a Florida court. Snipes could face up to 16 years in prison if he's convicted of failing to report the $37.9 million he earned between 1999 and 2004, and filing for $11.3 million in allegedly fraudulent refunds for earlier taxes. Snipes' attorney insisted it wasn't fraudulent; it was just Snipes' way of asking the IRS a question.

Charged with Snipes are two tax protesters who ran an aggressive tax accounting firm that later claimed to be a tax-free nonprofit church. They had argued that the federal government only has a right to tax income generated in other countries. Snipes turned to them after his normal accounting firm dropped him, telling him that he had to pay taxes, Reuters reports.

Sources Reuters, Tampa Tribune

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