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Lauryn Hill sentenced to prison on tax charges for 3 months.

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Ripclawe

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Wesley Snipes was robbed!! She should have got at least a year.


http://www.cnn.com/2013/05/06/showbiz/lauryn-hill-prison/index.html

Singer Lauryn Hill's failure to pay federal income taxes for three years has earned her a three-month prison sentence.

Hill pleaded guilty last year to three counts of failing to file tax returns on more than $1.8 million between 2005 and 2007.

The Grammy-winning artist appeared Monday before U.S. Magistrate Judge Madeline Cox Arleo in federal court in Newark, New Jersey, for sentencing.

Hill must also pay penalties and taxes still owed, a $60,000 fine, serve a year on probation and possibly three months of home confinement.

She must report to prison on July 8, unless her lawyer files an appeal of the sentence.

The income in question was mostly from music and film royalties paid to companies she owned between 2005 and 2008, according to the U.S. attorney's office.

"Although Hill pleaded guilty to charges specifically related to those tax years, her sentence also takes into account additional income and tax losses for 2008 and 2009 -- when she also failed to file federal returns -- along with her outstanding tax liability to the state of New Jersey, for a total income of approximately $2.3 million and total tax loss of approximately $1,006,517," the prosecutor said.

Hill's lawyer, Nathan Hochman, told CNN before the sentencing that, "Ms. Hill has not only now fully paid prior to sentencing her taxes which are part of her criminal restitution, but she has additionally fully paid her federal and state personal taxes for the entire period under examination through 2009."

Hill revealed in a message posted to her Tumblr account last month that she's been working on new music.

"It has been reported that I signed a new record deal, and that I did this to pay taxes. Yes, I have recently entered into an agreement with Sony Worldwide Entertainment, to launch a new label, on which my new music will be released," Hill wrote. "And yes, I am working on new music."

Her fans have been waiting for new music from here since her 1998 solo album, "The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill."
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BobTheFork

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Help Me! said:
Nice misplaced modifier in that thread title. But anyway...How long did Willie get? Snipes?
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Willie never went to Jail because it was generally agreed that he never took any kind of control in his finances. He basically 'had people' to deal with that and they fucked him over.

Snipes not only didn't pay but there was all those wierd reports he was starting companies (more than one) and basically making it a policy not to pay taxes and asked that everyone else not pay them either. It's was some grand dumbass statment or policy with him
 
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Dali

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Jay Shadow said:
Killing her softly with tax law
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Miseducated on it more accurately.

OrangeGrayBlue said:
It really upsets me to see one of the more forward-thinking female artists of the 20th century fall so far from her former glory.
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Honestly I can't say I've really seen her "fall" per se. Not like complete public meltdown like Whitney or Amy at least. She just sort of disappeared. I mean yeah I've seen the clown face Lauryn picture but there's no context or video of her acting crazy. Outside of this tax thing I hadn't heard any bad news stories about her.
 
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Dali

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OrangeGrayBlue said:
It really upsets me to see one of the more forward-thinking female artists of the 20th century fall so far from her former glory.
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Honestly I can't say I've really seen her "fall" per se. Not like complete public meltdown like Whitney or Amy at least. She just sort of disappeared. I mean yeah I've seen the clown face Lauryn picture but there's no context or video of her acting crazy. Outside of this tax thing I hadn't heard any bad news stories about her.
 
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Sleepy

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BobTheFork said:
Willie never went to Jail because it was generally agreed that he never took any kind of control in his finances. He basically 'had people' to deal with that and they fucked him over.

Snipes not only didn't pay but there was all those wierd reports he was starting companies (more than one) and basically making it a policy not to pay taxes and asked that everyone else not pay them either. It's was some grand dumbass statment or policy with him
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Interesting. Snipes is an idiot. Willie was just high.
 
Grinchy

Grinchy

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According to TMZ:

Hill was present during the hearing, and delivered a statement to the judge in which she compared her situation to slavery.

"I was put into a system I didn't know the nature of. ... I'm a child of former slaves. I got into an economic paradigm and had that imposed on me," Hill said.

She continued, "I sold 50 million units ... now I'm up here paying a tax debt. If that's not likened to slavery, I don't know what is."
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http://www.tmz.com/2013/05/06/lauryn-hill-prison-tax-evasion-sentenced/

riiiiiiight. Crazy's gonna crazy
 
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Baller. PhD

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Jay Shadow said:
Killing her softly with tax law
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CB3

intangibles, motherfucker
I was just listening to Nothing Even Matters today. Shame how she's fallen off.
 
entremet

entremet

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All financial planners will tell you not to fuck around with Uncle Sam. He has the power to jail you unlike other creditors.
 
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Violater

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Cyan said:
Examples? Or are you confusing rewriting tax law so you can get away with shit with breaking existing tax law?
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http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/01/24/hundreds-capitol-hill-staffers-didnt-pay-taxes-in-2010/
http://news.investors.com/politics-andrew-malcolm/012612-599002-obama-white-house-staff-back-taxes.htm
http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2012/09/mitt-romney-tax-returns
I'm no insider, so this is the best I can do on a minutes notice.

But yes your point is also applicable.
 
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GaimeGuy

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Ken Masters said:
She payed 970,000 and still got sentenced
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The big issue is that she failed to file for 3 years in a row.

If she paid by October 15 but failed to file for extension by April 15 (or just forgot to file for extension) one year or multiple years in a row, that's okay. In fact, all you end up with is added 5% for each month missed (up to 25%) in that case, so long as you payby october 15th, regardless of remembering to file for extension or not. (I think)

The issue is that not only did she not file for extension, but that she didn't pay her taxes period, and she did this for 3 years in a row. At some point you're going to get a swift boot to the ass.
 
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Ripclawe

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http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/music/2013/07/08/lauryn-hill-starts-prison-sentence/2499315/

DANBURY, Conn. — Grammy-winning singer Lauryn Hill began serving a three-month prison sentence on Monday for failing to pay about $1 million in taxes over the past decade.

Hill reported to federal prison in Danbury, said Ed Ross, a spokesman for the federal Bureau of Prisons. Inmates at the minimum security prison live in open dormitory-style living quarters and are expected to work jobs such as maintenance, food service or landscaping.

Hill, who started singing with the Fugees as a teenager in the 1990s before releasing her multiplatinum 1998 album The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill

, pleaded guilty last year in New Jersey to failing to pay taxes on more than $1.8 million earned from 2005 to 2007. Her sentencing also took into account unpaid state and federal taxes in 2008 and 2009 that brought the total earnings to about $2.3 million.

Her attorney had sought probation, arguing that Hill's charitable works, her family circumstances and the fact she paid back the taxes she owed should merit consideration.
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