Teresa, Joe Giudice Hit with $551,000 Tax Lien: Report

Reality television stars Joe and Teresa Giudice have been hit with a $551,000 tax lien.

The lien, which was filed with the Morris County Clerk Oct. 21 in both Joe and Teresa’s names, shows unpaid tax bills for nine years between 2000 and 2013, according to NJ.com. Included in these years are when Joe was charged with failing to file his taxes as part of a 41-count indictment in 2013.

The federal government charged Joe in 2013 with failing to pay his taxes on the nearly $1 million he reportedly made between 2004 and 2008, the report states.

Teresa has agreed to give the government her 2005 Maserati and part of her salary from Bravo to satisfy the more than $414,000 in debt she owes the federal government.

The tax lien was filed the day before the Community Bank of Bergen County issued notice that it was ending its foreclosure proceedings on the Giudices’ Montville home, according to the NJ.com report. The notice allegedly said that the couple had made good on their missed payments; the couple reportedly stopped paying their more than $10,000 monthly payments in December 2014.

Teresa did not face tax charges. She is currently serving a 15-month sentence at the Federal Correction Institution in Danbury, Conn., on bankruptcy fraud and conspiracy charges. She is due to be released Dec. 23, according to reports, and will be under house arrest until her prison sentence formally ends in February.

Joe will reportedly begin his 41-month long sentence once Teresa is released so one parent can always be home with the reality television couple’s four daughters. Joe and the daughters’ lives have been chronicled in a special three-part spin-off series on Bravo called “Teresa Checks In.”

A tell-all memoir Teresa is writing is scheduled to be released four days after her prison term formally ends.