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Al Sharpton's Next Challenge: Uncle Sam

Posted May 10th 2008 9:34AM by TMZ Staff

The Rev. Al Sharpton may need to reach further into his pockets to pay his debts. A whopping 1.5 mil!

Government records obtained by the AP suggest that the Rev and his business entities owe nearly $1.5 million in overdue taxes and associated penalties.

The U.S. attorney is investigating his nonprofit group. Sharpton's lawyers and the staff of his nonprofit group, dispute the size of the debt under investigation and have been negotiating with the federal government. The group has also been trying to pay off tens of thousands of dollars it owes for failing to properly maintain workers compensation and unemployment insurance.

The Wesley Snipes school of tax evasion may have another graduate!

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61. Send his a$$ to jail, too!

Posted at 4:00PM on May 10th 2008 by Lori

62. Send them all to prison. Free meals-weights and TV. Let's clean up America.

Posted at 4:16PM on May 10th 2008 by Bobby Joe

63. All you white people who hate Al Shaprton can't wait to watch Oprah, buy her books and her magazines and blindly take her advice. And she is laughing all the way to the bank. She is gazillion times more dangerous than Rev Sharpton and Rev Wright put together but you can't wake up enough to figure that out. She's a black woman who bowed to being white, hired mostly uppity white women and their bought into their liberal agendas. And makes one announcement that all the bored uppity white housewives of America bought into because she said so. When Hail To The Chief is played for the fist time to President Obama, not one single one of you can make one tiny complaint.

Posted at 4:27PM on May 10th 2008 by chicken stripper

64. They are just trying to stir up something to make him be quiet......stay the course Rev Al, they're trying to bring you down..it takes a racist to know a racist so for those of you calling Al a racist..maybe you are a racist too!

Posted at 4:49PM on May 10th 2008 by EGGO

65. At least Orka Whinfrey pays her employees, and well I might add!

I for one have not watched her in years and do not own anything orka!

Posted at 4:43PM on May 10th 2008 by what evah!!!

66. He doesn't owe ANYTHING..............the IRS is an illegal entity run by the US Gov't. The Supreme Court ruled in 1913? (may have been later) that it is illegal for the federal government to tax our personal income i.e. our salary. Therefore, NONE of us should be giving money to the IRS. Besides the fact that there is absolutely NO law on the books that say we have to pay takes to the Federal Government, technically, us paying the IRS is voluntary. Case in point: My boyfriends father NEVER filed taxes in his whole 81 years. When he died the IRS sent nasty letters to his Grandmother saying she owed them 10's of thousands of dollars. When they found out that she was going to have to sell her house to pay them, they said don't worry about it, and she never paid them a dime. The reason that the Gov't is going after celebrities for not paying there taxes is 1. to get the rest of us scared enough that we won't think of not filing, and 2. because the US is broke and needs the money. TMZ: Why don't you do a little research on this before you badmouth people who don't pay their taxes.

Posted at 1:36PM on May 11th 2008 by fedup

67. Bottom line...Black people can now claim America. We took over, and to think, you guys brought us here. America will have it's first Black President. There will be a large MLK Statue in Washington, which is larger than any other statue out there. Ha ha ha we took over your music, your sports, and how sweet it is that we taking over the white house. 09 whites will be living under our rules.

Posted at 5:26PM on May 10th 2008 by Dawan Lloyd

68. Dawan ~ you are one ignorant human being! Has it EVER occured to you to pick up a damn book and read it? How long did you attend school..................or did you even go? You were probaly raised by your grandmother since, your mama left soon after she had you, as most black women do! In that case, I am sure you never attended school which is the reason for your ridiculous statement that we (whites) brought you ass over here (USA)!!!! BOTTOM LINE.................................your ancestors were not brought over here by whites..............your black brothers SOLD your ass and, they are STILL doing it! So, you see until you black folks start educating yourselves and know right from wrong, you will NEVER be able to CLAIM AMERICA as you so ignorantly stated!!

Go to library and read a damn book.............know what the hell you are talking about!

Posted at 5:55PM on May 10th 2008 by Dallas

69. Rev. Al will surely say that this is a Republican Old White Man Conspiracy, and hows come they don't come all over Pat Robertson and Billy Graham ??? Just watch and see !!!! He is a hoot !

Posted at 5:57PM on May 10th 2008 by Once you go black....

70. EGGO ~ The only folks keeping racism alive are people like you and Sharpton............he oozes racism just like you, your mother, father, sister and so on! STFU you idiot!

You need to go read a book too................when was the last time you paid taxes??

Posted at 5:58PM on May 10th 2008 by Dallas

71. THROW THIS SECRETLY-WANNA-BE-WHITE, BAG OF SH*T IN JAIL AND KEEP HIS ASS THERE!!! THESE FREEKIN "PEOPLE" THINK THEY CAN DO WHAT EVER THEY WANT...........YOU THINK THEY'RE MONSTERS NOW? HA! jUST WAIT IF ONE OF THEM BECOMES PREZ..........THEY'RE BEHAVIOR WILL MAKE TERRORISM LOOK LIKE A DAY AT THE BEACH!!!

Posted at 6:07PM on May 10th 2008 by noitall

72. Darquan,

You must be very young, uneducated, and have a short memory. He got in trouble with campaign finances previously. He, as you, think the rules should not apply to him. I suggest you listen to Bill Cosby more and Al Sharpton less. You will be far more successful and less full of hate! I pay all my taxes and so should big Al.

Posted at 6:34PM on May 10th 2008 by Granny in Georgia

73. The Bottom line is that if all the white people were to move out of this country and there was nothing but blacks here, they would very shortly be begging for our help because their children would be dying from starvation, parents dying of Aids and mosquitoes flying around spreading Malaria. Oh wait, that place already exists...AFRICA, the place they all claim to be from. I won't eat my dinner in the bathroom after I gone poop either.
There's NO such thing as an African-American, Mexican-American, etc. You wanna be African, then GO and don't let the door hit ya on the way out.

Posted at 6:42PM on May 10th 2008 by Jen

74. JUST BECAUSE YOU WISH YOU WERE WHITE DOESN'T MAKE YOU WHITE, JUST ASK REV. WRIGHT.

Posted at 6:53PM on May 10th 2008 by Bob

75. I love when "African Americans" say things like "you brought us here." If I am correct most of you were born in the US? Which makes you an AMERICAN. Your not from Africa, then your not an African American.

I'm white so that means I owe all blacks. Except my poverty stricken ancestors didn't get here until the 1850's... at slavery's end. And they didn't cry and ask for handouts or welfare. They got here, set up house and worked their asses off to provide for their families.

So forgive me if I don't feel guilty about your ancestors being enslaved by some other white people. I'm not complaining about my ancestors being enslaved and sold. I don't hear any of the Jewish people crying, complaining or asking for handouts. STEP UP AND F U C K I N G MAKE SOMETHING OF YOURSELVES. STOP BEING LAZY AND PLAYING THE BLAME GAME.

Posted at 7:23PM on May 10th 2008 by Kaye

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