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Tax

Aug. 11, 2017

How not to deal the IRS? Just ask DMX

When it comes to taxes, you might want to emulate Warren Buffett, or perhaps even Donald Trump, if you think either made a tax savvy move you can copy. You are less likely to want to emulate Wesley Snipes, DMX, or even Floyd Mayweather. Snipes followed a kind of tax protester strategy that landed him in prison for three years, and cost him millions.

Robert W. Wood

Managing Partner
Wood LLP

333 Sacramento St
San Francisco , California 94111-3601

Phone: (415) 834-0113

Fax: (415) 789-4540

Email: wood@WoodLLP.com

Univ of Chicago Law School

Wood is a tax lawyer at Wood LLP, and often advises lawyers and litigants about tax issues.

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How not to deal the IRS? Just ask DMX
DMX performs during the Def Jam 30th-anniversary concert at the Barclays Center in New York, Oct. 16, 2014. (New York Times News Service)

When it comes to taxes, you might want to emulate Warren Buffett, or perhaps even Donald Trump, if you think either made a tax savvy move you can copy. You are less likely to want to emulate Wesley Snipes, DMX, or even Floyd Mayweather. Snipes followed a kind of tax protester strategy that landed him in prison for three years, and cost him millions.

Even long after his prison time, he was in litigation with the IRS over large civil ...

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