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Hollywood actress owes N71.5m in taxes!

The IRS says the former president of the Screen Actors Guild failed to pay more than $360,000 in federal income taxes between 2011-2013 tax debt.

Mellissa Gilbert

Hollywood actress, Melissa Ellen Gilbert has confessed owing a sum of N71.5m ($360K) in taxes after the Internal Revenue Service filed a tax lien against the actress who is famous for her role in .

Reports in the American media revealed that the IRS filed a tax lien against the actress in February and details emerged after she recently announced that her family was moving from a rented home to another area home.

Accepting her debt with a negotiated payment plan, Gilbert heaped her blames on a stalled acting career, the economy and divorce.

In a media statement by the actress,'like so many people across the nation, the recession hit me hard” and there was a “perfect storm of financial difficulty for me.'

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