A federal court in Atlanta upheld tax evasion convictions against Wesley Snipes today. The actor had appealed his conviction on three misdemeanor counts of failing to file taxes from 1999 to 2001. He was found to owe $17 million in penalties and back taxes and also given a 3-year prison sentence.
Jul 16
2010
06:06 PM ET
Wesley Snipes loses court appeal
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I think the headline pretty well sums it up.
Lock that tax cheat up
LOL at the headline! Snipes lost his appeal years ago.
Aw, EW changed the headline. For those confused, it originally said “Wesley Snipes loses appeal.”
I have no sympathy for him. He used tax arguments that had been repeatedly dismissed as frivolous (IRS-speak for “stupid”). Pay your share, Wesley.
you gotta love American values/morals. Of which there are none. Most Americans on these board want Mel Gibson not pay he just hates gays black Mexicans and Jews, like them, as they keep saying ‘everyone’ says those things. Everyone does not. But they want Snipes a man who did what a lot of them do, try to get out of paying his taxes and Lindsay Logan who represents in every form the standard behavior of many Ameircan woman her age just not famous, to pay.LOL. What a sad pathetic country
Lindsay LoHAN does not represent standard behavior of many American women her age.
You must be reading highly edited sites if you think most people are supporting Mel Gibson. You appear to be more in line with him, with your prejudices and sweeping generalizations, than with the site commentators.
What country might you be from Emin? If ours is such a sad and pathetic country than yours must be glorious by comparison?
As annoying as taxes are, I am sure he was given many opportunities to make things right before it came to this. I just hope the IRS doesn’t expect to ever get that money. He will never have that kind of money to pay back.
why shouldn’t he pay taxes we all
do, just because he’s an actor he’s exempt..I don’t think so