Wesley Snipes, who federal officials say has evaded taxes, has been arrested at the Orlando International Airport. “It appears I’m to be the scapegoat, because there’s more public interest in ‘celebrities gone bad’ than ‘rich people being taken advantage of,’ ” Snipes told the Orlando Sentinel earlier this week. The IRS says Snipes failed to report millions of dollars in the mid to late 90’s. He had been filming a new film when news broke in October that he had been wanted for tax evasion. I tried tallying up how much Wesley has made on his 30 plus films and couldn’t find one source that had them all. I do know he has made $45 million dollars on his top 5 films. I heard him on Howard Stern and he said he had a Twin Brother with the same name, and HE’S THE TAX EVADER. He keeps doing on these goofy interviews, and if it’s in the public, then it will definately be admissible in court. It was very ironic that we was not-officially, but close enough to being a fugitive, which goes along with the offshoot movie, US Marshalls (which was not-officially, but technically a sequel to the Fugitive). I bet all these movies are all being rented out at Blockbuster and DVD sales are going through the roof….controversy sells.
Comment by bob from worcester on 19 February 2007:
if they pay him for acting, he earns it.
if he earns it as wages,he pays no federal income tax.
income is only profit, gains derived FROM those wages.
not the wages themselves. Get a copy of CRACKING THE CODE
at Amazon.com. and learn for yourself.
Comment by Aaron on 1 February 2008:
you can’t break a law that doesn’t exist.