Wesley Snipes Still Owes IRS $23.5 Million (1)

Actor Wesley Snipes is still on the hook for a $23.5 million IRS tax bill, after the U.S. Tax Court rejected his claim that he couldn’t pay.

The court denied a settlement offer—to pay less than 4 percent of the total liability—because Snipes didn’t prove “economic hardship,” according to a Nov. 1 opinion.

The actor has a history of trouble with the Internal Revenue Service. Snipes was convicted in 2008 for failing to file income tax returns for 1999, 2000, and 2001 after becoming involved with American Rights Litigators. The group claimed that domestic earnings of Americans don’t qualify ...