Music producer SWIZZ BEATZ has reportedly been ordered to pay back all over $842,644 (GBP421,322) to the U.S. government after failing to follow-through on tax payments.
According to celebrity site TMZ.com, the hip-hop heavyweight - real name Kasseem Dean - has had a tax lien placed against him and his estranged married woman, Mashonda, by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS).
Dean was named seventh in the annual list of the biggest earning hip-hop stars for 2008 in a public opinion poll released on Tuesday (19Aug08), which estimated his annual earnings at $17 meg (GBP8.5 one thousand thousand).
A interpreter for the producer has not returned calls for comment.
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