Teresa Giudice was reportedly hit with a $17,061.32 federal tax lien in April 2023 — bringing her New Jersey tax debt to over $1million, according to The Sun.
The RHONJ star, 51, received the penalty on April 19 for allegedly neglecting to pay off her debt in the years 2020 and 2021.
Though they do not currently have releases filed, the Morris County Clerk’s Office reports that this latest ding brings her outstanding debt to a total of $1,096,012.14.
Her attorney James J. Leonard Jr. told Page Six that Teresa is being proactive and already making ‘significant’ and ‘timely’ monthly payments.
‘Ms. Giudice has been aware of her tax obligations for years and makes significant timely monthly payments towards her outstanding tax liabilities and will continue to do so until those liabilities do not exist,’ Leonard said in a statement.
DailyMail.com has also reached out to representatives for Teresa for comment.
Teresa Giudice was reportedly hit with a $17,061.32 federal tax lien in April 2023 — bringing her New Jersey tax debt to over $1million, according to The Sun; seen in 2022
Just two years ago, Teresa and her ex-husband Joe Giudice — both of whom previously served prison sentence after being convicted of fraud in 2014 — had a lien for $64,157.64 for the 2016 and 2017 years filed against them.
They then received a lien for $243,425.50 in April 2016 for the year 2014 and a lien for $219,804.38 for the year 2015 that May.
The most startling chunk — a reported 551,563.30 in October 2015 — is owed for the years 2000, 2001, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, and 2013.
Teresa has been chipping away at her alleged debt, with The Sun reporting that she paid off another lien last year for $363,120.
It was made solely in her name for the 2011 and 2012 years, according to the outlet.
A $235,510.15 judgment by Alliance Laundry Systems against her, along with her ex-husband Joe and his parents Filomena and Frank, in July 2013 was successfully paid off in February 2022.
Teresa also forked over $11,310.59 in April 2022 to North Hudson IVF — a company she and Joe used in the hopes of conceiving a son — for a June 2009 judgement.
They ended up welcoming their daughter Audriana Giudice, the youngest of their four girls, naturally in September 2009 following the failed IVF attempt.
In 2017, it was reported by TMZ that Teresa had completely restored the $414,588 tax debt she owed the government as part of her sentence.
The Sun then reported that an assumed $8,000 in fines had also been ‘paid in full’ as of February 2022.
Both Joe and Teresa pleaded guilty in 2014 to ‘to one count of conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud, one count of bankruptcy fraud by concealment of assets, one count of bankruptcy fraud by false oaths, and one count of bankruptcy fraud by false declarations,’ as per the DOJ.
Joe also ‘pleaded guilty to one count of failure to file a tax return.’
Teresa was sentenced to 15 months in prison in January 2015, but was released two months early in time for Christmas on December 23, 2015.
Joe was imprisoned in March 2016 and served a 41 month sentence before being deported to his native Italy in October 2019.
The decision to report the star was made the previous year.
Her lawyer told Page Six on Thursday that Teresa is being proactive and already making ‘significant’ and ‘timely’ monthly payments; seen in 2022
Just two years ago, Teresa and her ex-husband Joe Giudice — both of whom previously served prison sentence after being convicted of fraud in 2014 — had a lien for $64,157.64 for the 2016 and 2017 years filed against them; seen in 2011
She split from Joe in 2019 and remarried last summer to Luis Ruelas, 48; the couple seen in 2022
Joe is still unable to return to the United States but he has been working with an immigration attorney since 2021.
He told E! News that he is doing ‘everything in my power’ to get back to his daughters and that he remains in constant contact with them via FaceTime.
Joe and Teresa’s daughters Gia, 22, and Milania, 17, also visited their father in Italy during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020.
Joe and Teresa’s divorce was finalize in 2020. They were married for 20 years before announcing they separation in late 2019.
Teresa remarried last summer to Luis Ruelas, 48, and — despite her alleged debt — purchased a lavish $3.3million New Jersey mansion in 2021.
TMZ reported at the time that it was an ‘investment property,’ but Teresa later confirmed that it is indeed her and Luis’ love nest.
The couple’s wedding was an extravagant affair at the Park Château Estate & Gardens in East Brunswick, New Jersey in August 2022.
The star’s wedding hair alone cost $9,500, according to ET, and it was previously reported that the venue cost $32,000.
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