Posted on 03/02/2024 3:21:15 PM PST by lowbridge
Academy Award-nominated actor Terrence Howard has been ordered by a federal judge to pay nearly $1 million in back taxes, including interest and penalties, after saying that it was “immoral for the United States government to charge taxes to the descendants of slaves.”
The judgment comes after the IRS spent a year trying to collect $578,000 in income taxes that Howard, 54, had not paid between 2010 and 2019, according to the Philadelphia Inquirer.
The Justice Department sued the “Empire” star in 2022 over the issue, but the actor’s only response appears to have been an angry voicemail he left on the phone of the case’s lead tax attorney in November.
“Four hundred years of forced labor and never receiving any compensation for it,” the actor said in the message, according to a court transcript. “Now you have the gall to try and prosecute and charge taxes to the descendants of a broken people that you are responsible for causing the breakage.”
In a second, follow-up voicemail message, Howard said, “In truth, the entire United States should, by default, become the property of the descendants of slaves. But since you do not have the ability [or] the courage to do it, let’s try this in court. … We’re gonna bring you down.”
Howard, who reportedly lives in Plymouth Meeting, Pa., never formally responded to the lawsuit, the Inquirer said. Following a court hearing last week in Philadelphia, U.S. District Judge John F. Murphy OK’d a $903,115 default judgment against Howard,
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Can he prove he is a “descendant of slaves?”?
What is it about actors from that show?
Then go back to Africa.
Where’s the IRS’s much-vaunted SWAT Team?
Does that include descendants of white slaves?
guess he never heard of Wesley Snipes...
It’s immoral to tax anybody.
IRS 1040 taxes are legal theft of our wealth.
(inflation is also theft).
He was the kid in “Mr Holland’s Opus”; excellent film and he did a good job.
So sad to see a talented actor become so ignorantly woke.
I hope he wakes up.
The Income Tax is a form of slavery
Another one for the list . . .
He’s a wife beater.
Nice try buckwheat.
Nice try buckwheat.
Think about all the money Howard could have made across multiple Marvel movies for the past decade and a half, had he been more humble and grateful.
I think I’ve heard he was fired from the MCU because Robert Downey Jr didn’t like him or they just didn’t get along. Now I’m thinking maybe RDJ wasn’t nearly as much at fault as the article I read implied.
Who does he think he is...Hunter Xiden?
*****
The 400 yr nonsense is the same dims saying we're a democracy all the time.
They know repetition matters.
1619 first slave ship arrives in the British colonies.
1776 US declares independence.
1863 Emancipation Proclamation frees slaves in the Confederacy
1863 13th Amendment Ratified ending all slavery in the US.
For 87 years slavery existed in the US. Hardly the 400 years claimed.
Why isn’t the far-left “media” demanding that these racist chumps prove that they actually picked cotton and deserve a paycheck for it. I’ll bet the only cotton this chip ever picked was in the Gucci men’s underwear department.
Edit. 13th ratified in 1865.
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