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Comic Carlos Mencia has been charged with 12 felony tax counts, Los Angeles County district lawyer Nathan J. Hochman reported on June 18. Hochman claimed the comic didn’t report $8.7 million in private and company earnings taxes from 2019 to 2024. “Mr. Mencia has an earnings most individuals can solely dream of, and like everybody else he’s required to file his private and company tax returns and pay his fair proportion,” Hochman said. “Failing to report tens of millions of {dollars} in earnings is a slap within the face to hardworking Californians who diligently file and pay their taxes yearly as a result of they care about their communities and the general public items, like police, fireplace, roads, and utilities, their tax {dollars} present. At present we’re sending a message to the tax scofflaws that it’s now not enterprise as typical in Los Angeles County — the times of a free go for failing to file returns and pay taxes are over.”
The fees embody six felony counts of failure to file private earnings tax with the intent to evade tax and 6 felony counts of failure to file company earnings tax with the intent to evade tax. Mencia was arraigned on Monday, June 22. In keeping with TMZ, he pleaded not responsible on all 12 counts. His bail was diminished from $250,000 to $50,000. He’s scheduled to look in court docket subsequent on August 14. “We’re grateful that the choose right this moment rejected the District Lawyer’s grossly inflated bail request of $250,000,” protection lawyer Dana Cole instructed Deadline, noting that the comic had been compelled to spend Father’s Day in jail pending arraignment. “We consider that the District Lawyer’s effort to make Carlos the poster youngster of its new enterprise tax fraud unit was overreach, and we consider the court docket acknowledged that. We sit up for resolving this case within the close to future.”
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