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The five Braxton sisters grew up singing together in the church where their father was pastor, performing as a quintet, singing backup for each other on tour, and starring in their own family reality show. The sisters also shared another pivotal trait — a tendency to pile on mountains of debt.
Tamar Braxton, 47, who sang in a shimmering five-octave range, won a BET Award and three Soul Train Music Awards during her career and was nominated four times for a Grammy. She and her mother and four sisters starred in a WeTV reality show called “Braxton Family Values.” Tamar also starred with her husband Vincent in another reality show, “Tamar & Vince.” (The couple divorced in 2019.) In addition, Tamar was the co-host of a Fox daytime talk show, “The Real.” Braxton said in an Instagram post that she had recently reached an agreement with the IRS. “Like many Americans, I was in negotiations with the IRS to resolve discrepancies from a few years,” Braxton said. She claimed that she was in full compliance with tax law. Braxton also chided her critics: Tax woes, she said, are “not uncommon when you have several companies and make a lot of revenue. Let’s move on to the next topic.”
Singer and television personality Tamar Braxton, the youngest of the five sisters, was hit by tax liens last year accusing her of owing the IRS more than $2.4 million, covering the years 2015, 2016, 2017, 2020, and 2021, based on documents reported by In Touch, a celebrity magazine.
Tamar’s oldest sister, Toni, the most commercially successful sibling, filed for bankruptcy twice, in 1998 and 2010. Another sister, Towanda, filed for bankruptcy in 2019, listing among her debts a
Nevertheless, news of the liens drew fire on social media. “One thing I will never understand is why these celebrities think they can ignore the IRS,” said a YouTube influencer who calls herself the “Grey Haired Diva.” She added, “They get vicious when you ignore them.”
$30,000 loan from her sister. Tragically, the Braxtons also suffered the 2022 death of their sister Traci, from esophageal cancer.
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