14 DAY TRIAL // Tax evasion recently landed actor Wesley Snipes in prison, and Nicolas Cage in hot water. Still, the IRS doesn’t discriminate between actor, singer or reality star. Marc Anthony owes $3.4 million in back taxes, it has emerged.
He and wife Jennifer Lopez make an estimated $61+ million each year but, somehow, Marc still managed to get himself into some trouble – in fact, his management got him in this nasty situation.
Radar Online reports that the singer and actor has not paid his taxes for years and it’s eventually catching up with him. Marc, on the other hand, insists his recent troubles are not his doing, but a result of bad management.
“The husband of superstar Jennifer Lopez has been slapped with demands for $1.8 million in unpaid taxes, Radar Online has exclusively learned,” the e-zine says.
Still, this is just a fraction of the amount Marc owes to the IRS, since the total debt is over $3 million.
“What’s more, it’s the second straight year that New York authorities have hit Marc Anthony with a million-dollar-plus lien on a slice of Long Island real estate that he owns,” Radar writes.
“The latest demand was filed on March 29, 2010 in Nassau County. Just three months earlier, a federal tax lien for $1.6 million was placed on the same property,” Radar reports.
As of now, it’s not known whether Anthony has paid the back taxes he owes. His rep was not immediately available for comment, as neither were his attorney and manager.
On the bright side, Anthony and Lopez are consolidating the family business with the launch of their all-inclusive “lifestyle” line at Kohl’s, as we also informed you a month ago.
For the time being, the line only includes clothes and accessories, but it may expand in the future to comprise home goods as well, depending on how the items now available are received by the general public.