# Those federal blood-suckers took down Blade! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 25, 2008, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/those-federal-blood-suckers-took-down-blade/446786 "2008-04-25T01:47:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![billfish678](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@billfish678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billfish678)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2010, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/those-federal-blood-suckers-took-down-blade/446786/21 "2010-07-21T19:10:31Z")
> [@Northern\_Piper](#): > > It’s the second. His argument was that the federal income tax law didn’t apply to him. See the [wiki article](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wesley_Snipes#Tax_problems): Good grief. Oh well, hope he likes jail then. Why the fuck o why do people with more money than they know what to do with pull this kinda shit? I keep thinking someone could make a killing by being a “consultant to the stars”. Nothing fancy mind you, just tell em "hey, this is crazy shit, and you are headed for disaster, let me find you an expert for this, not some yes man… (now where’s my one percent?). ---
**Author:** ![CandidGamera](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/candidgamera/32/2878_2.png) [@CandidGamera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CandidGamera)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2010, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/those-federal-blood-suckers-took-down-blade/446786/22 "2010-07-22T01:09:52Z")
> [@mks57](#): > > I’ve never understood why people think that they can blatantly screw around with the IRS and get away with it, at least where real money is involved. Some motherfuckers are always trying to ice-skate uphill. ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2010, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/those-federal-blood-suckers-took-down-blade/446786/23 "2010-07-22T01:27:32Z")
> [@billfish678](#): > > I keep thinking someone could make a killing by being a “consultant to the stars”. Nothing fancy mind you, just tell em "hey, this is crazy shit, and you are headed for disaster, let me find you an expert for this, not some yes man… (now where’s my one percent?). I think that’s what a life coach is. ---
**Author:** ![billfish678](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@billfish678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billfish678)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2010, 12:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/those-federal-blood-suckers-took-down-blade/446786/24 "2010-07-22T12:11:55Z")
> [@Rilchiam](#): > > I think that’s what a life coach is. Man, with a lame title like that you’ll never attract the big names. And its obvious the market isnt saturated yet 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2010, 12:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/those-federal-blood-suckers-took-down-blade/446786/25 "2010-07-22T12:19:23Z")
> [@friedo](#): > > I hope he can get time-off credit for _Passenger 57_, though. That was badass. You hope? You _ **hope?** _ Man, always bet on black. ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2010, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/those-federal-blood-suckers-took-down-blade/446786/26 "2010-07-23T23:38:44Z")
> [@Siam\_Sam](#): > > 😕 I guess I’ve been away a long time. I don’t know any Juice. OJ Simpson. The correct answer is OJ Simpson. ---
**Author:** ![samclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2010, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/those-federal-blood-suckers-took-down-blade/446786/27 "2010-07-24T00:10:41Z")
> [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](#): > > You hope? You _ **hope?** _ Man, always bet on black. Unless the Black is Snipes. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Taomist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/53a042/32.png) [@Taomist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taomist)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2010, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/those-federal-blood-suckers-took-down-blade/446786/28 "2010-07-24T01:31:03Z")
> [@](#): > > _A panel of judges in the 11th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals upheld Snipes’ 2008 sentencing on three misdemeanor counts of failing to file tax returns._ Oh I’m screwed. I regularly don’t file if all I’m going to get back is a few bucks. They’ve never seemed to care. Shit O.o ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2010, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/those-federal-blood-suckers-took-down-blade/446786/29 "2010-07-24T02:08:10Z")
> [@billfish678](#): > > I can see two extremes. He just didnt bother to pay taxes or paid them wrong. The IRS catches his ass and he says “my bad, I’m an idiot, what do I owe, what are the penalties, here is the check”. > > . Pretty much, no one outside a Crime lord (or other real criminals they can’t get other charges to stick) goes to jail in that case. You fess up, agree to pay, and no jail time- other than what you already spent. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2010, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/those-federal-blood-suckers-took-down-blade/446786/30 "2010-07-24T02:10:55Z")
> [@Taomist](#): > > Oh I’m screwed. I regularly don’t file if all I’m going to get back is a few bucks. They’ve never seemed to care. > o More or less, you’re not in any real danger of going to jail, since you had no tax liability. You will lose any refund after 2-3 years. But the IRS might be \*damned \*nasty for a while, so you should find a Tax Pro and get that done. Failure to do so could be very very bad, even if you don’t get convicted of a actual crime. ---
**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2010, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/those-federal-blood-suckers-took-down-blade/446786/31 "2010-07-24T02:11:52Z")
> [@Taomist](#): > > Oh I’m screwed. I regularly don’t file if all I’m going to get back is a few bucks. They’ve never seemed to care. Don’t worry about it. Failure to file is only a crime if you owe something. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2010, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/those-federal-blood-suckers-took-down-blade/446786/32 "2010-07-24T02:16:20Z")
> [@friedo](#): > > Don’t worry about it. Failure to file is only a crime if you owe something. Yes, true. But you do not want to be in the position of trying to prove you didn’t owe. DO worry about it. Don’t worry about _going to prison_ over it, true. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2010, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/those-federal-blood-suckers-took-down-blade/446786/33 "2010-07-24T02:28:51Z")
Here’s what will happen: The IRS will send you a series of letters asking you to file. Then, if no reply- they will propose filing for you, not allowing **ANY DEDUCTIONS AT ALL.** If no reply they will send you a “90 Day Notice” , and if you do not reply by 90 days they will assess that plus a shitload of penalties, including Failure to File and maybe even Civil Fraud. The IRS can then put a lien on your income, a levy on your bank account, and sieze anything you may own that they can sell for a decent amount. True, the chance for jail time is tiny. But it will ruin you financially. So, call a Tax Pro _now_, get those returns filed. Tax advice courtesy of my Bro, who worked for the IRS for 20 years. ---
**Author:** ![Taomist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/53a042/32.png) [@Taomist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taomist)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2010, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/those-federal-blood-suckers-took-down-blade/446786/34 "2010-07-24T02:47:41Z")
I’ve actually never been contacted. You have to realize that I am 43, and I’ve filed perhaps 15 years out of the last 27 that I have been working and paying taxes. I’ve even _owed_, and it was taken out of the next time I filed a return where I got a refund. Also understand that I’ve never made much money, and they probably really don’t care, but still…there is no way to go back and file those taxes. I don’t even have a clue which years they were, except that I didn’t owe; I’m sure I would have heard about that. I just went the longest time seriously believing you only had to file if you owed. Hell, I’ve had the State hold my state check for YEARS, finally posting it in the paper along with all the other lost revenues. While I don’t expect the Feds to do that \, I am now truly surprised they haven’t ever audited me. I’d be screwed. I keep no records at all. ---
**Author:** ![rolandgunslinger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/cdc98d/32.png) [@rolandgunslinger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rolandgunslinger)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2010, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/those-federal-blood-suckers-took-down-blade/446786/35 "2010-07-24T02:49:32Z")
I blame Bush.😃 ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2011, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/those-federal-blood-suckers-took-down-blade/446786/36 "2011-06-08T04:30:37Z")
Federal Bloodsuckers win Round III: [SCOTUS Declines to hear his Appeal](http://ca.reuters.com/article/entertainmentNews/idCATRE7554DC20110606): > [@](#): > > Actor Wesley Snipes, serving a three-year prison sentence for failing to file income tax returns, suffered a legal setback on Monday when the U.S. Supreme Court refused to review his case. > > Snipes, 48, the star of the “Blade” action movies, was convicted in 2008 in a Florida court for willful failure to file federal tax returns from 1999 through 2001. > > Snipes, who has served nearly one year of his three-year term, was accused of not filing personal income tax returns and not paying any taxes from 1999 through 2004 despite earning more than $37 million as an actor and producer. ---
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2011, 5:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/those-federal-blood-suckers-took-down-blade/446786/37 "2011-06-08T05:51:41Z")
> [@Northern\_Piper](#): > > Federal Bloodsuckers win Round III: [SCOTUS Declines to hear his Appeal](http://ca.reuters.com/article/entertainmentNews/idCATRE7554DC20110606): It’s like he’s trying to ice skate uphill. ---
**Author:** ![AlsoNamedBort](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alsonamedbort/32/3213_2.png) [@AlsoNamedBort](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AlsoNamedBort)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2011, 5:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/those-federal-blood-suckers-took-down-blade/446786/38 "2011-06-08T05:53:19Z")
To think, if he had just gone to jail back when he was first convicted, he would be out by now. ---
**Author:** ![Oakminster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/77aa72/32.png) [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2011, 5:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/those-federal-blood-suckers-took-down-blade/446786/39 "2011-06-08T05:58:37Z")
Does Casey Kasem still do long distance dedications? If so, I’d like to dedicate [this one](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPXnoLAEUSQ) to Mr. Snipes. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2011, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/those-federal-blood-suckers-took-down-blade/446786/40 "2011-06-08T14:20:34Z")
Good on the courts for sending a message to deadbeats. Snipes will of course come out of there with some undeserved rep for having been in prison, and his movies will make even more money. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/those-federal-blood-suckers-took-down-blade/446786.md?page=1)