Snipes gets the max 3 years in tax case. sound fair?

N5638J · Apr 25, 2008

I beleave they sent a message that noone will ignore. 3 years for failing to file tax returns. How do y'all feel about it? fair? unfair?

http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/04/24/snipes.sentencing/index.html

Adrynalyne · Apr 25, 2008

I think its unfair, but not because it happened to Snipes.

Being a victim of a recent audit, the IRS is being pressured to produce more results (from the auditor's own words), especially in light of the war effort.

Totally unfair, and nobody can say it doesn't have to do with how much we are blowing in Iraq.

musksnipe · Apr 25, 2008

He didn't file taxes for several years. I think it is very fair, considering the amount of money he makes and the fact that somewhere along the way he had to have been warned or advised.

On the other hand, I am being audited by the State of Michigan because they owe me $1045 and I have a non-taxable VA disabilty income, so I think they are flexing some muscle.
Freaking Pigs!!! :tas

darlene1029 · Apr 25, 2008

I have made it plain before how I feel about IRS (an illegal organization)

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1656880303867390173

ASUS · Apr 26, 2008

I don't think it's Fair
That SCUM Bag! should get minimum of 15 yrs plus Fines and Payment of all Taxes owed, Court cost too...

DavidGP · Apr 26, 2008

To be honest I think its fair and correct of the courts to do, while the likes of me and you do not have laywers/accountants and personal managers,the likes of Snipes DO so they really do know what they are doing and trying to evade taxes should be punished.

Sadly many who are so called celebrities do get away with all sorts, whereas the "ordinary" folk get absolutely harpooned by the system, the system hits the less well off $$ wise.

So the message is SO WHAT if your famous you are treated like everyone else.

Adrynalyne · Apr 26, 2008

ASUS said: ↑

I don't think it's Fair
That SCUM Bag! should get minimum of 15 yrs plus Fines and Payment of all Taxes owed, Court cost too...
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Another witness described how Snipes had helped train personnel from 33 airlines on safety techniques after the September 11, 2001, terror attacks, without seeking pay or media attention.
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Oh yeah, what a scum bag rolleyes

Rikky · Apr 26, 2008

I don't think so,they we're obviously setting an example and I think everyone who is used to set an example is treated unfairly.

I thought this tax did you know is pretty relevant,watching this video kinda surprises me as to how much power the government now has and the amount of money they expect from us.

http://www.break.com/index/did-you-know-taxes.html

musksnipe · Apr 26, 2008

Snipes, 44, conspired with Eddie Ray Kahn and former certified public accountant Douglas Rosile in the tax scam. Kahn is the founder of a Florida company (now known as Guiding Light of God Ministries) that, investigators allege, "promoted and sold fraudulent tax schemes" to clients like Snipes. Kahn has claimed that U.S. citizens could only be taxed on income earned from certain foreign-based activities (and not on money made in this country). This claim--known as the "861 argument" for the section of the tax code to which it refers--has been flatly rejected by the Internal Revenue Service. As part of the alleged Snipes scheme, the actor filed amended tax returns seeking $12 million in refunds on taxes he paid in 1996 and 1997.
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Doing good deeds, does not give you the right to do wrongful ones.
PS: One of the co-defendants in the " alleged scheme" got 15 1/2 years, the other 4 1/2. Snipes got the lenient sentence. He is an intelligent man and knew what he was doing.

LauraR · Apr 26, 2008

He should be fined up the butt in addition to paying his back taxes. Other than that, people like that should not go to jail. Jails should be for people who are a danger to others, not for people who owe the government money.

Snipes does not believe in taxes. With all respect to Darlene, I can't even relate. Do I like to pay them? hell no. Are they necessary? Without a doubt. His wages should be garnished for the rest of his life if he wants to work in the US, since it doesn't seem that he will pay them on his own. With the amount he makes for a movie, they guy could pay what he owes back in about one movie.

Rikky · Apr 26, 2008

I totally agree Laura,I also think if your they are gonna take three years of his life he shouldn't have to pay any money back,I mean three years of his one and only life thats very harsh IMO.

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