IRS takes a Snipe at Wesley.

I’m guessing that Wesley Snipes isn’t high-kickin’ much these days now that the Internal Revenue Service has caught up with him and is putting the Snipe-down on him. Snipes, star of the Blade movies, White Men Can’t Jump and one of my personal favorites To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar.
Apparently Wes didn’t file tax returns for several years. Prosecutors claim he didn’t file from 1999 to 2004 and apparently jurors found that he didn’t file 1999 to 2001. How can jurors make that decision? It seems pretty straightforward! Either he filed or he didn’t and the IRS would now that? How does this even go to trial?
My inability to comprehend the American tax system aside, Snipes has been sentenced to three years in the poky. He didn’t file because of some bullshit reason about the IRS not being a “properly established public agency” and some crap out being a “stateless person.” It seems that when it comes to communications with the IRS, Snipes channeled his character in Wong Foo, Noxema Jackson: “Approval neither desired or required!”


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