*On Sunday, the New York Daily News began a piece on Lauryn Hill with the lines, “Call it the miscalculation of Lauryn Hill. The R&B singer has landed in hot water again with the tax collector.”
But Hill has since come forward to say that the article — which cited a tax judgment filed June 30 in Mercer County, New Jersey in saying she owes $438,211 — is actually part of the tax issues she’s been dealing with for years now.
“I’m still taking care of past taxes,” she wrote Tuesday in a letter posted to Twitter. “This has been an ongoing process, and I have been working steadily towards a resolution.”
The Daily News also reported that Hill owes a tax lien from 2012 that amounts to $446,386.60.
In 2013, Hill was sentenced to three months in federal prison on tax evasion charges after the IRS accused her of failing to pay $1 million in back taxes.
Lauryn says her tax problems have largely kept her under the radar ever since.
“When you eat a lot of other people’s debts and become financially responsible for as many people as I did, a break like the one I took was necessary,” she wrote.
Read Lauryn’s entire post below:
— Ms. Lauryn Hill (@MsLaurynHill) July 19, 2016
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