Continuing a decades long trend of plundering Black wealth, the Internal Revenue Services (IRS) has launched another high profile prosecution against a well known Black business person, this time its Terrence Howard in the cross hairs.

The actor and producer is being sued buy the feds for $903,114.72 which consist of back taxes, interest and penalties and the agency is refusing to write off the bill despite a a majority of Howard’s income tax filings being over a decade old.

The justice department has filed the suit which is a rarity for owed back taxes and even rarer for a case built around decades old penalties. Which also brings to question how the IRS let nearly a million dollars worth of back taxes and penalties go unaccounted for more than 10 years.

Howard recently made waves by publicly endorsing reparations for Freedmen. But seems to incurred the wrath of the state since just a month after he made those comments he announced that he would be suing California Creative Artist (CAA) for his unfair compensation for his role on the hit tv show Empire, and within 2 weeks of that filing, the US Justice Department announced its lawsuit against the actor, something that critics see as a brazen act of retaliation against Howard.

Howard left a voicemail with the lead prosecutor, Maria Elizabeth Ruwe, stating that it is inherently “immoral” for the United States to charge taxes to the descendants of slaves given the nation has never compensated them for the greatest crime in human history; the antebellum holocaust also known as American slavery:

“Four hundred years of forced labor and never receiving any compensation for it. Now you have the gall to try and prosecute and charge taxes to the descendants of a broken people that you are responsible for causing the breakage… In truth, the entire United States should, by default, become the property of the descendants of slaves. But since you do not have the ability [or] the courage to do it, let’s try this in court … We’re gonna bring you down.”

The IRS is a racist organization with a long and storied track record of falsely accusing, harassing and falsely imprisoning Black business owners as apart of the United States’ never-ending siege on Black wealth creation.

The agency has its roots in targeting Black congressional agitators and high profile Black business people alike.

The IRS has wrongfully prosecuted thousands of innocence Black business people the most famous including Roberts Smith, Wesley Snipes, Lauryn Hill, Chris Tucker, Damon Dash, Dionne Warwick, Sinbad, Bill Cosby, Steve Harvey, O.J. Simpson, and Oshay Jackson also known by his stage name of Ice Cube.

Although being ordered to pay Howard has publicly stated that he plans to fight the case but is open to negotiations and reconciliation.

The IRS has refused to respond to the Daily’s request for comments.

–Barrington Williams, B1 Daily