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Originally Posted by MrBottomTooth
3 years seems ridiculous.
Now the taxpayers have to support him in prison for 3 years, and he has no chance to go out and work for those three years to make the millions of dollars he usually makes, which would have resulted in millions more paid in income taxes.
I think making him pay his taxes along with hefty fines and interest owing would have been more effective. Maybe he'll get out in a month though, like most celebrities.
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I agree. Three years is crazy. Snipes was dumb as hell. He got involved with one of those guys who convinced him that the the constitution says US citizens don't have to pay taxes. So not only did he no file or pay for several years, he actually filed an amended return to try to get back 4 million he had paid in.
So he is dumb, but sending him to jail doesn't really benefit anyone. If he got a huge fine and was probation so he could work he could earn money, pay back what he owes and keep paying into the system it would be better. Just make part of his parole that he has to file every year. Now his already waning career is going to go further down the drain so the chances of him paying all this back in a timely way just went way down.