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"&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img alt=\"0820_lauryn_hill_tmz_Article\" src=\"http://ll-media.tmz.com/2012/08/20/0820-lauryn-hill-tmz-article-2.jpg\" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Lauryn Hill&lt;/strong&gt; didn't just drop the ball on a $1.8 million tax bill from the federal government -- she also failed to pay $440,000 in taxes to the State of New Jersey ... so says the State of New Jersey.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A civil judgment was entered against Hill on June 14th by a Jersey court -- finding the Fugees singer is responsible for $446,386 in unpaid state taxes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A week before the judgment came down,&amp;#160;Hill was charged with&amp;#160;failing to file FEDERAL tax returns in 2005, 2006, and 2007 ... a federal crime. &lt;a href=\"http://www.tmz.com/2012/06/29/lauryn-hill-guilty-failure-to-file-tax-returns-prison/\"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;She&amp;#160;pled \"guilty\"&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; and now faces 3 years in prison.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; But lucky for Hill, &amp;#160;the state tax situation hasn't become a criminal matter ... yet.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hill is scheduled for sentencing in her federal tax case in November.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Calls to the singer's reps were not returned.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a class=\"lightbox-link\" href=\"http://www.tmz.com/photos/2012/04/17/celebrity-tax-problems/\" target=\"_blank\"&gt;&lt;img alt=\"0130_celebrity_tax_problems_footers\" src=\"http://ll-media.tmz.com/2012/01/30/0130-celebrity-tax-problems-footers.jpg\" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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