Singer songwriter Lauryn Hill was thrown into jail for three months for tax evasion, with another three months of home confinement. This is all based upon her following some scheme by phony tax advisors claiming that she did not need to file and pay income taxes. Like many people, from physicians to celebrities, she fell prey to the tax protesters coaxes.

The IRS had a great time spending tens of millions of dollars prosecuting her but got incredible amounts of publicity to scare other people into filing their tax returns. That is the basis of our “voluntary” tax system. Without people being scared of being thrown in jail, the system would collapse.

Now, the IRS is using Lauryn Hill’s name to keep scaring taxpayers, just before the tax Read More

Lauryn Hill has learned that being a rock star, although it exempts you from many of the burdens of life, does not exempt you from filing taxes. Just like famous actor (Wesley Snipes) and hotel heiress (Leona Helmsley), Lauryn Hill has felt the full wrath of the United States Government by being thrown into jail for failing to file her tax returns.

It seems, Miss Hill, through her bevy of tax and financial advisers, did not file tax returns for 2005, 2006 and 2007. Three years; that’s the magic number for the IRS to have a presumption of “willful” failure to file. Even though she had big tax losses in 2008 and 2009, her late filing and late paying of tax, means she is going to Federal Prison for 3 months.

Let’s look at the facts: Read More