The news has just come out that Maci Bookout from Teen Mom owes a lot of money on taxes. According to an exclusive report from In Touch, Maci owes a total of over $150,000 to the IRS.
Based on online records that In Touch has obtained, she has two separate tax liens filed against her. This means the total that she owes is actually two separate debts.
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According to In Touch, the two liens were filed recently, in February 2024. The bigger of the two debts is over $105,000 – and it’s not just in Maci’s name alone. The person listed as Debtor 2 in the filing is her husband, Taylor McKinney.
But the second debt is not shared and is Maci’s alone. This one is almost $50,000.
Having a lien listed against her means that Maci hasn’t paid her taxes as she should have and now she’s in debt to the IRS. If she doesn’t pay the debt, the IRS could seize her assets to make up for what she owes them. Assets here could mean, for example, her car or her house.
Maci Has a History of Tax Liens
But Maci has been in similar situations before. She’s had tax liens filed against her several times in the past. Some of them as recently as last year.
In August 2023, In Touch reported that Maci owed over $14,000 in taxes. Even though the report came in August, according to In Touch, the debt was actually filed a couple of months before, in May 2023.
Also, according to In Touch, this wasn’t the only tax debt to Maci’s name at the time. She also owed over $12,500 to the state of California at the time.
This debt was several years old, even at that point. The filing was from 2017. In Touch did not report on whether or not Maci has paid off these debts yet.
However, her history with tax debt goes even further back than 2017. In 2014, In Touch reported that Maci owed over $78,000 in taxes, dating back to 2011. Maci was reportedly not doing too well with paying off this debt.
A source told In Touch at the time: “She’s been telling people that she’s working on paying it back, but very little progress has been made.” According to the newest reports released by In Touch, Maci has actually succeeded in paying off this particular debt.
Maci May Eventually Leave the Spotlight
More recently, Maci has been considering quitting reality TV. She has opened up about this in a recent interview with In Touch.
She said that she thinks about leaving the spotlight all the time. At least for now, she hasn’t made the decision to quit.
She explained that she and her family are so well-known that they constantly keep getting recognized in public. But she’s also aware that this wouldn’t change if they stepped away from the show.
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She said she knows that people won’t just forget about her and Taylor and their kids if they stop being on TV, which is why they made the decision to just keep going with the show.
At least for now, Maci is planning to stick with reality TV and keep putting herself and her family out there. She explained that there are also positives to the whole thing.
One of them is that sharing her family’s story helps some people feel better. So she’s going to keep going, at least for that reason.
