Lauryn Hill Hit with Tax Charges

The feds maintain the former Fugee failed to file taxes for five years

Ready or not, here the IRS comes.

Federal prosecutors have charged five-time Grammy winner Lauryn Hill with willfully failing to file income tax returns with the IRS.

Authorities say Hill earned more than $1.6 million during the three years that she failed to file returns. Prosecutors say her primary source of income is royalties from the recording and film industries.

The 37-year-old South Orange, N.J., resident is scheduled to appear before a federal magistrate on June 29.

Hill got her start with The Fugees and began her solo career in 1998 with the critically acclaimed album, "The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill."

A message left for her California-based attorney, Nathan J. Hochman, was not immediately returned.

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