Actress Melissa Gilbert Owes the IRS and the State of California Nearly $500,000.00 In Back Taxes!!!!

Dayum! This is a hot ass mess. Actress and former President of the Screen Actors Guild Melissa Gilbert owes the IRS and the State of California nearly $500,000.00 dollars in back taxes. (She owes the IRS $360,000.00 and the State of California $112,527.00. ) Melissa blames the bad economy, a divorce and lack of acting jobs for her tax troubles. Well, I am not buying that. for her to owe so much tax, that means she had income. The IRS and State of California can only levy taxes on income. They can't tax thin air. So Melissa was foolish, and didn't have her accountant set aside the taxes when she was raking in the income to begin with. Why do so many celebrities do this? It's just so stupid to me. If I were a celebrity, I would hire a reputable accountant, and every time I got paid from a movie or TV  show, I would tell him to deposit my check into my account and then look up what the taxes are for that payment and then transfer that tax amount into an account marked "taxes owed". And make sure you do that for both federal and state income taxes. Then when taxes are due in Jan, you have all of that money already set aside and you aren't scrambling to come up with it on the fly. Or in Melissa's case, having to make a payment plan so that the IRS doesn't start attaching her assets. Melissa divorced fine ass Bruce Boxleitner after 16 yrs of marriage and 1 child, in 2011, but then she turned around in 2013 and married Timothy Busfield. Didn't she get a settlement or child support from Bruce? So Melissa needs to stop being stupid when she gets paid and make sure her accountant or business manager takes out the taxes right away and then set that money aside and do not touch it. I know it's easier said then done. But I think this is the best way. Or you could take 30% out of every pay check and then cut a check and send it to the IRS and another 20% and send it to the State of California Franchise Tax Board. That way, when you file your taxes in Feb or March of the next year, you wont owe any money and should be getting a nice fat refund of 6% of all the taxes paid that year from the IRS. Right? What do you think? Is that a good plan or what? LOL