Rapper T.I. Slapped With Massive Tax Lien Months Before Scoring $71 Million in Court

Rapper T.I. was accused of owing over $2 million in back taxes to Uncle Sam months before he won a $71 million judgment in court, In Touch can exclusively report.

According to court documents obtained by In Touch, T.I., 44, was hit with a federal tax lien on June 13.

The government said the entertainer failed to pay his full bill for two years. The lien said T.I. (real name: Clifford Harris) owes $383,512.45 for 2021 and $2,142,360.73 for 2022.

The grand total of the lien is $2,525,873.18. Back in 2015, T.I. and his wife Tameka ‘Tiny’ Cottle were hit with multiple tax liens.

The liens accused the couple of failing to pay $1.3 million for 2012 and another $3 million for 2013. Following the 2015 tax drama, T.I. and Tiny, 49, paid off millions in back taxes and had not been hit with any liens until this year.

T.I. should have no problem paying off the debt after he came out victorious in a legal battle over dolls. T.I. and Tiny were awarded $71 million against the toy company MGA Entertainment after a jury found the couple’s intellectual property rights had been violated.

As In Touch previously reported, back in August, T.I. and Tiny received good news in another case. A federal court judge dismissed the sexual assault lawsuit filed against the famous couple.

The case was filed by a woman using the pseudonym Jane Doe.

She claimed T.I. and Tiny had assaulted her in a hotel room in 2005. She sued, seeking unspecified damages, for sexual battery, sexual battery, false imprisonment and intentional infliction of emotional distress.

The accuser said she met T.I. and Tiny at the club where she claims Tiny had her taste her drink. She said they asked her back to their hotel room. Shortly after arriving to the hotel room, the suit alleged, “As [Doe] walked over to the bed, she felt extremely dizzy and lightheaded. Plaintiff could tell she was experiencing something serious and debilitating that was not a symptom of a typical drink or few drinks.”

Doe said T.I. instructed her to massage him and then he allegedly placed his toes into her vagina.

The accuser said she told him ‘no’ and “tried to move T.I. out of her.”

She said she became sick and passed out. “[Doe] knew she was drugged by Tiny and T.I. with the drink Tiny handed her while still at the club for the purpose of sexually assaulting and battering her,” the suit alleged. She said after waking up she “immediately noticed her vagina was in serious pain, and that she felt an itching and burning sensation in her vagina as well.”

Her lawyer said, “[Doe] did not consent to any of the sexual assault or misconduct and did not have the capacity to consent after being drugged by Defendants.” T.I. and Tiny denied all allegations of wrongdoing. Further, they argued the claims were time-barred due to the statue of limitations. “All the claims asserted in the Complaint are time-barred because the statute of limitations for such claims has long expired over sixteen years ago,” their lawyer said.

The lawyer also added, “The facts as alleged, reflect that [Doe] voluntarily and consciously participated in the encounter up to the point when she said ‘no’ and removed herself from the bed with Defendants, who honored her expressed desire to leave the encounter, go to the bathroom, sit on a couch until the morning, and then leave.”

The judge granted T.I. and Tiny’s motion at a recent hearing but noted Doe could refile an amended complaint.