Posted Nov 27th 2009 10:00AM by TMZ Staff
The United States government might have a bigger budget to work with -- if one bodybuilding governor would pay the back taxes it appears he never got around to paying.
According to documents filed in L.A. County Superior Court, Arnold Schwarzenegger owes the IRS $39,047 from 2004 and $40,016 from 2005.
In total the Guv owes $79,064.00 ... and as we all know, he's definitely not saving the money for rainy day traffic violations.
An official at the L.A. County Recorder's Office tells TMZ their system shows the lien is still active.
Calls to Arnold's office have not been returned.
Filed under: Celebrity Justice, Arnold Schwarzenegger
Tags: arnold schwarzenegger, ArnoldSchwarzenegger, internal revenue service, InternalRevenueService, irs, taxes
Posted Nov 18th 2009 6:20PM by TMZ Staff
The IRS wants some serious "Girls Gone Wild" money, because they've filed a lien against Joe Francis for a whopping $33,819,087.14 ... this according to documents obtained by TMZ.
The Federal Tax Lien doc was filed today. The IRS claims Joe owes the money for 3 years of back taxes -- 2001, 2002 and 2003. In 2001, the IRS says Joe didn't pay $17,658,358. In 2002, the delinquency is $11,238,582.14, and in 2003, he owes $4,922,147.
It was less than 2 weeks ago that Joe got out of a sticky federal tax evasion case by copping a plea and avoiding prison.
Joe told TMZ, "I have no idea what it is." He says he does not owe the money and, "This is total retaliation for me beating them in court." Joe says the law the IRS is using hasn't been used against anyone in 20 years.
Joe says yesterday, the feds seized more than $100,000,000 in cash accounts of his.
Joe says the IRS is forcing him to file for personal bankruptcy, which he will do tomorrow.
Filed under: Celebrity Justice, Exclusives, Joe Francis
Tags: back taxes, BackTaxes, federal tax lien, FederalTaxLien, girls gone wild, GirlsGoneWild, internal revenue service, InternalRevenueService, joe francis, JoeFrancis, lien, tax lien, taxes, TaxLien
Posted Oct 20th 2009 6:15AM by TMZ Staff
The IRS takes no prisoners -- and even though Anna Nicole Smith's been dead for over two and a half years, they're still coming after her estate for a hefty chunk of change.
Records obtained by TMZ show the Internal Revenue Service filed a $125,112.86 federal tax lien against the Vickie Lynn Marshall Estate in Los Angeles County earlier this month.
The tax assessment took place in December 2008 -- Anna died in February 2007.
Filed under: Celebrity Justice, Anna Nicole Smith, Exclusives
Tags: anna nicole smith, AnnaNicoleSmith, dannielynn smith, DannielynnSmith, internal revenue service, InternalRevenueService, IRS, vickie lynn marshall estate, VickieLynnMarshallEstate
