Rollie Fingers owes almost 1.5 million in back taxes

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The Milwaukee Brewers are planning a big celebration next summer to mark the 25th anniversary of the Brewers' 1982 American League pennant-winning team.

If Hall of Famer Rollie Fingers - a mainstay of that team - shows up, agents with the state Department of Revenue would like to chat with him.

That's because Fingers owes the state $1,433,609 in back taxes, according to a state Web site of the top 100 tax delinquents. The debt was first reported by MilwaukeeWorld.

Fingers ranks seventh on the delinquent tax list. If you count only those who owe income taxes, Fingers ranks No. 1.

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Are these back taxes probably from his playing days in Milwaukee in the 1980's?

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Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher Rollie Fingers disputed his status as one of Wisconsin’s largest tax delinquents, insisting in an online journal that he had income taxes withheld from every paycheck when he played for the Milwaukee Brewers in the 1980s.

“The Brewers went through the archieves (sic) and found that every paycheck issued to Rollie Fingers while he was a member of the Brewers had state income taxes withheld,” according to an entry dated Jan. 8 on RollieFingersSportsBlog.com.

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Baseball Hall of Famer Rollie Fingers knows what people are saying and writing about his tax troubles.

"I'm not a tax dodger," Fingers said Friday in a telephone interview from his Las Vegas home. "I pay my taxes."

The state Department of Revenue has a different view and says Fingers, who last lived in Wisconsin in 1985, owes the state $1,433,609 in back taxes.

But Fingers says that can't possibly be right and says the recent unearthing of some old W-2 forms shows he paid $190,000 in state taxes and more than $1.1 million in federal taxes in the years he worked in Wisconsin.

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