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Video: Tyler Perry Recalls Time He Fired Entire Accounting Team After Discovering IRS Owed Him $9 MILLION In Tax Returns

<p><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;dev&period;theshaderoom&period;com&sol;&quest;s&equals;Tyler&plus;perry&amp&semi;post&lowbar;type&equals;post" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener"><strong>Tyler Perry<&sol;strong><&sol;a> revealed he once fired his entire accounting team after learning the Internal Revenue Service &lpar;IRS&rpar; owed him &dollar;9 million in tax returns&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The filmmaker and philanthropist&comma; who had been on the receiving end of an audit&comma; shared the story at the 2022 <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;earnyourleisure&period;com" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener"><strong>Earn Your Leisure Conference<&sol;strong><&sol;a>&comma; where he discussed his career journey and some of the challenges he&&num;8217&semi;s learned from along the way&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><amp-instagram data-shortcode&equals;"CaVEmCzLe30" layout&equals;"responsive" width&equals;"600" height&equals;"600" data-captioned><&sol;amp-instagram><&sol;p>&NewLine;<h3 style&equals;"text-align&colon; center&semi;">Perry Says &&num;8220&semi;Obsessed&&num;8221&semi; IRS Agent Was Intent On Following His Money&comma; Prompting An Audit<&sol;h3>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"code-block code-block-5">Although Perry didn&&num;8217&semi;t go the traditional college route to achieve billionaire status&comma; she shared that he learned his lessons by spending more than most people&&num;8217&semi;s college tuitions&period;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<blockquote><p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Money isn’t something that I had&comma; and nobody taught me that taxes had to be paid&comma;” he shared&period; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;I didn’t go to college&comma; but I paid for Harvard many times over in the mistakes that I made&period;”<&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<p>In front of a live audience&comma; Perry retold the time when a particular IRS agent became obsessed with what Perry was doing with his money&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Perry said the audit lasted for three years&comma; costing him &&num;8220&semi;hundreds of thousands of dollars in accounting&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote><p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;So this audit went on for three years&comma;” Perry said&period; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;I’m spending hundreds of thousands of dollars in accounting with accountants for the audit and I am getting so mad and so frustrated&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>We get to the end of the audit&comma; and they&comma; the IRS&comma; owed me &dollar;9 million&comma;” he shared&period;<&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<p><amp-instagram data-shortcode&equals;"Cjyt&lowbar;rKgvSb" layout&equals;"responsive" width&equals;"600" height&equals;"600" data-captioned><&sol;amp-instagram><&sol;p>&NewLine;<h3 style&equals;"text-align&colon; center&semi;">Accountants Were Thrilled To Report Missing &dollar;9 Million Before Tyler Perry Fired Them<&sol;h3>&NewLine;<p>Perry went on to say that the team of accountants were thrilled to inform him that the IRS actually owed him &dollar;9 million&comma; to which he responded by firing them for somehow missing such a massive amount of money&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote><p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Everybody gone&excl; I had to stop going to H&amp&semi;R block for my taxes at some point&comma;” he joked with the conference’s audience&comma; according to Finurah&period;<&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<p>Perry added that he &&num;8220&semi;learned in progress and it&&num;8217&semi;s okay&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h3 style&equals;"text-align&colon; center&semi;">Perry Calls Audit Learning Experience And Says He Moved Forward&comma; Like He Always Does In Business<&sol;h3>&NewLine;<blockquote><p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Listen to me&colon; In business&comma; it’s okay to make mistakes&period; It’s okay to learn&period; You have to learn&comma; but don’t let it keep happening over and over again&period; That’s one thing about me&period; I’ll let you make a million mistakes&comma; but you can’t do the same thing over and over again&period;”<&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<p>He said &&num;8220&semi;that&&num;8217&semi;s how I run my business&period; Here&&num;8217&semi;s the mistake&period; Let&&num;8217&semi;s fix it&semi; let&&num;8217&semi;s move forward&period;&&num;8221&semi; Perry added that had the IRS agent removed from the case and replaced with one of his superiors&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine; 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