CALIFORNIA NAMES SIMPSON AS 15TH TOP TAX DEBTOR

CALIFORNIA NAMES SIMPSON AS 15TH TOP TAX DEBTOR

O.J. SIMPSON owes California $1.5 million (GBP750,000) in back taxes, the state announced on Monday (07Apr08).
The Franchise Tax Board is required to post a list of California's 250 top tax debtors on its website each year, after notifying each person they will be publicly identified if they don't pay up on time.
And sportsman-turned-actor Simpson has made the dishonourable countdown for a second successive year, climbing from 33rd in 2007 to 15th on this year's (08) list.
However, Simpson's lawyer Yale Galanter claims he wasn't informed of the debt, and that his client hasn't worked in California for 12 years and owns no property in the state.
Galanter says, "It's a pretty well-known fact I am his lawyer. Nobody has ever contacted me from the state of California. We've never even gotten a letter."