New Jersey Nets former player Tate Claude George was properly assigned $79,000 in taxes and tax additions by the government, the U.S. Tax Court ruled Sept. 25.
George was incarcerated for all of 2013 and remains in prison today after being convicted of wire fraud in a real estate Ponzi scheme. When he failed to file a federal income tax return for 2013 after getting $208,111 from his NBA pension, the IRS made a return for him.
He argued his incarceration prevented him from making a tax return, that all the taxes he owed were already withheld by the NBA ...
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