Rapper Twista Faces 5 Years in Jail After Failing To Pay Revenue Taxes

Chicago rap veteran Twista has pleaded responsible in federal courtroom after prosecutors accused him of dodging a whole bunch of 1000’s of {dollars} in revenue taxes over a number of years.

Based on courtroom docs filed this week, the 52-year-old, born Carl Mitchell, entered a responsible plea final month in U.S. District Court docket … admitting to 5 counts of willfully failing to pay revenue tax.

Federal prosecutors say Twista didn’t pay revenue taxes from 2019 by means of 2023 regardless of incomes revenue from performances, streaming royalties, album gross sales, and music licensing.

Authorities say each the IRS and his accountants repeatedly warned him about his rising tax debt and his authorized obligation to pay … warnings that apparently did not work in the course of the years he didn’t fork over his money to Uncle Sam.

As a substitute of settling what he owed, prosecutors declare Twista entered agreements with a third-party firm to obtain advances on future royalty funds — a transfer officers say was structured in a means that stored the IRS from accessing these funds.

Investigators additionally allege he continued spending closely in the course of the interval in query, together with buying not less than 4 luxurious automobiles, quite than utilizing the cash to handle his tax legal responsibility. Based on courtroom information, Twista’s unpaid tax obligations date again to 2011 and complete greater than $440,000.

Every of the 5 counts carries a most sentence of as much as one 12 months in jail, although any punishment will finally be decided by a federal decide at sentencing.