Terrence Howard owes the IRS quite a bit of money.
According to The Philadelphia Inquirer, a judge has ordered the Oscar-nominated actor to pay the IRS $903,115 in back taxes.
Before the judgment, the IRS spent one year trying to collect $578,000 in income taxes the actor owed between 2010 and 2019.
There’s No Getting Out Of This One For Terrence Howard
In 2022, the Justice Department escalated Howard’s case to court.
But the actor didn’t respond well to the legal action.
He left the tax attorney a heated voicemail, saying:
“[It’s] immoral for the United States government to charge taxes to the descendants of slaves. Four hundred years of forced labor and never receiving any compensation for it. 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.”
Not satisfied, Terrence Howard left a second voicemail.
“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.”
This isn’t Howard’s first time in trouble with the IRS.
In 2010, the authorities placed a $1.1 million lien on his property for unpaid taxes between 2007 and 2008.
In 2019, authorities opened a criminal probe into Howard and his wife, Mira Pak, for tax evasion.
