A federal appeals court has upheld the three-year sentence of Wesley Snipes for willful failure to file income tax returns. Best known for playing the title role in the Blade trilogy of movies, Snipes earned some $34 million from 1999 to 2004 but failed to file income tax returns for those years.
While Snipes is not the first celebrity to have tax problems, his case is unusual in that he became actively involved in tax resistance, encouraging others to join him in refusing to pay. He was part of a group promoting frivolous arguments that he and others had no legal obligation to pay income tax.
