Now If You Ditch Your State Taxes, You'll Lose Your California Driver's License

California Gov. Jerry Brown is sick of celebrities flaking out on their state tax returns.

Brown signed a bill on Oct. 4 requiring the motor vehicle department to suspend the driver's licenses of its worst delinquents, many of whom you already know, reports the Journal.

Now they'll be publicly outed:

"The California driver's license suspensions will affect the state's top 1,000 tax debtors, whose names will be published online in two lists of 500 each. One list will be drawn from the income-tax rolls, with those on the second drawn from sales and other tax rolls. The new law expands an existing program by doubling the number of names on the published lists and adding the license suspensions."

The bill also applies to medical, beautician, physician's nurses, and other licenses, and follows the path of "at least 19 states, including Wisconsin, North Carolina, New York, Florida, Montana, Connecticut, Kentucky and New Jersey ... according to data from CCH, a unit of WoltersKluwer."

Pamela Anderson is on the books for $607,000, while Halsey Minor, a founder of CNET, is said to owe $14.2 million in income taxes, according to the paper.

What would you do if your license was suspended? Have you skipped your state taxes before?

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You'll Be Suprised To Hear Who Is Hosting This Year's MTV Video Music Awards On Sunday

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While MTV has been running promos for its upcoming Video Music Awards -- including a tribute to Britney Spears and some rambling courtesy of Lady Gaga -- there has been no talk of a show host.

And now we know why.

According to Huffington Post, the network was still looking for a host as of Tuesday -- Executive Producer Amy Doyle explained to Billboard:

Usually you have a host helping to promote the show. Is there a possibility there is no host?
It's going down to the wire. Hosting is such a unique element. We feel we got it right by putting new talent on the stage like Chelsea (Handler) and Russell (Brand). We're really challenging ourselves to find the right person so that the show feels complete.

But the article was soon updated to indicate that MTV had decided to go with no host for the show.

Maybe someone cancelled? Or there wasn't enough money?

Or, MTV just realized that people are really tuning in to see who Kanye West will interrupt and what Lady Gaga will be wearing, not watch a comedy act.

(via Huffington Post)

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