Pop Culture
This legendary singer was the first black woman to headline the Coachella Music Festival and her performance was the most-streamed Coachella video on YouTube ever.
Who is Beyoncé?
This "Jersey Shore" star pled guilty to tax evasion in January 2018 and served eight months in prison.
Who is Mike ‘The Situation’ Sorrentino?
New York City places a special tax on prepared foods, so this staple bakery item, is taxed once as "food" and again as "prepared food" after it is sliced.
What is a bagel?
This Florida PPMD was a member of the University of Miami men's swim team from 2000-2001.
Who is Mike Perez?
In 1971, the Miami Dolphins made their first Superbowl appearance and lost to this team.
Who are the Dallas Cowboys?
In the iconic television sitcom, Friends, three young men and three young women deal with issues surrounding love, drama, friendship, and comedy, while living in this American city.
What is New York City?
In 2012, England served 155,000 convictions and fines for failure to pay annual tax on this item, which is central to most modern families' living rooms.
What is the television?
Peter the Great, Emperor of Russia during the late 17th/early 18th century, imposed a tax on this and required the 'owner' to carry a special token to indicate that he had paid the tax.
What is a beard?
California first imposed the "jock tax" in 1991 after Michael Jordan's Chicago Bulls beat this team in the finals.
Who are the LA Lakers?
This professional hockey team is the southernmost team in the NHL.
Who are the Florida Panthers?
In the 2018 Marvel Studios movie, Black Panther, this actor and Michael B. Jordan face off to be King of Wakanda, a technologically advanced African nation.
Who is Chadwick Boseman?
In 2014, this Netflix show starring the now disgraced Kevin Spacey halted filming in Maryland to await approval of additional "film tax credits" from state lawmakers.
What is House of Cards?
In 2009, Proctor & Gamble faced a hefty VAT bill in the UK after the court ruled that this product contained enough potato to give rise to the level of a "potato crisp."
What are Pringles?
In 1994, this NY Mets Hall of Famer was charged (and later indicted) for federal tax evasion. In 2007, the IRS again sued for collection of nearly $500k in unpaid taxes, which they ultimately collected by auctioning his retirement annuity from the NY Mets.
Who is Darryl Strawberry?
The Netflix documentary, Tiger King, details Joe Exotic's life, career, and feud with Carole Baskin. This former NBA player appears in the documentary during one of his visits to the now infamous Oklahoma zoo.
Who is Shaquille O'Neal?
As of January 2020, development has begun for the fourth movie of the action-comedy franchise, Bad Boys. The last three were filmed in Miami, FL, and starred Will Smith and this actor.
Who is Martin Lawrence?
This legendary country singer was allowed by the IRS to record an album to raise funds for a $15M tax debt.
Who is Willie Nelson?
Though a seldomly used punishment, from 1995-2011, tax fraud was punishable by death in this country.
What is China?
This Florida PPMD races cars as a hobby.
Who is Wayne Hussey?
In 2021, Tom Brady led the Tampa Bay Buccaneers to their second Superbowl title. Their first Superbowl victory was in 2002, led by this QB.
Who is Brad Johnson?
This modern-day item accidentally made a cameo in the final season of Game of Thrones.
What is a Starbucks cup?
In the 2016 film, The Accountant, this actor portrays a CPA who makes a living uncooking the books of criminal and terrorists organizations around the world that are experiencing internal embezzlement.
Who is Ben Affleck?
This is the northernmost US state that does not impose state income tax.
What is Alaska?
In 2014, it was reported that this famous golfer had gambled away roughly $57 million. This news came four years after the IRS served him with a federal income tax lien of over $1 million.
Who is John Daly?
In 2006, the University of Florida won National titles in both football and this sport.
What is men's basketball?