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