{"id":480285,"date":"2018-12-27T20:34:48","date_gmt":"2018-12-28T03:34:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=773372"},"modified":"2018-12-27T20:34:48","modified_gmt":"2018-12-28T03:34:48","slug":"irs-claims-aretha-franklins-estate-owes-millions-in-back-taxes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/music-news\/irs-claims-aretha-franklins-estate-owes-millions-in-back-taxes\/","title":{"rendered":"IRS Claims Aretha Franklin\u2019s Estate Owes Millions in Back Taxes"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The late Aretha Franklin<\/a> owed more than $6.3 million in back taxes, The Detroit News<\/em><\/a> reports. However, an attorney for her estate claims that about half of those back taxes to the IRS have already been paid.<\/p>\n

According to legal documents filed in Oakland County Probate Court in Michigan per The Detroit News<\/em>, the unpaid income tax dates from years 2012 through 2018 and the filing states that \u201cno part of this debt has been paid and it is now due and payable to the United States Treasury at the Office of the Internal Revenue Service. It also says \u201cthis debt has priority and must be paid in full in advance of distribution to creditors to the extent provided by law.\u201d<\/p>\n

David Bennett, who represents Franklin\u2019s estate, told Associated Press<\/em><\/a> that the IRS is auditing the estate and the estate has paid at least $3 million of the back taxes to the IRS.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe IRS has filed its proof of claim in the ordinary cause of the estate\u2019s proceeding,\u201d Bennett said in a statement via Franklin\u2019s longtime publicist Gwendolyn Quinn given to The Detroit News<\/em>. \u201cThis is not a liquidated claim, and it is disputed by the estate. The vast majority of Ms. Franklin\u2019s personal 1040 tax obligations were paid prior to her death \u2013 something she wished to occur. The estate is diligently working to resolve any remaining issues.\u201d<\/p>\n

Franklin died<\/a> of pancreatic cancer on August 16th. She was 76.<\/p>\n

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The late Aretha Franklin owed more than $6.3 million in back taxes, The Detroit News reports. However, an attorney for her estate claims that about half of those back taxes to the IRS have already been paid. According to legal documents filed in Oakland County Probate Court in Michigan per The Detroit News, the unpaid […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-480285","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-12 01:50:53","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KQZR - The Reel","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=480285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480285\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=480285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=480285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=480285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}