Adams Answers: Gospel Singer Yolanda Adams Speaks About The IRS Probe

By Jawn Murray, BlackVoices.com

A federal judge has dismissed an Internal Revenue Service filing against Grammy-winning gospel superstar Yolanda Adams.

The Houston-based singer turned over financial records requested by the agency.

BV Buzz spoke exclusively with the 46-year-old singer, who is happy that everything is progressing smoothly with the IRS probe.

"The court date has been dismissed and we are working to find the true liability, if any, as a result of bad accounting on the part of former representation," she said.

This column reported on March 6 (see: Money Matters: IRS Investigates Gospel Singer Yolanda Adams) that the IRS had issued a summons that required Adams to provide documents for the last six years and explain her financial affairs to investigators.

A report in the Houston Chronicle claimed that when the multi-platinum singer failed to show up for a February appointment, the IRS asked U.S. District Judge David Hittner to order Adams to appear.

Her attorney, Chris Brown of Brown & Rosen LLC in Boston, Mass., told me that his client was never asked to appear in person for a hearing.

"There was a subpoena for documents, not for her personal presence," he clarified.

The news about the IRS investigation broke while the singer, who currently hosts the nationally syndicated 'Yolanda Adams Morning Show' on radio, was at sea on Radio One's 'One Love Gospel Cruise.'

Upon her return, Adams complied with the summons and the government withdrew its request and Judge Hittner dismissed the case.

Adams' attorney told me that neither he nor his client know why the IRS decided to investigate the singer.

"I don't know anyone in America that has the answer to that," Brown said over the phone.

He also dismissed the allegations that irregularities with two of Adams' mortgage applications is what caused the IRS investigation. "I don't know why a mortgage application would raise a red flag with the IRS. That doesn't even make sense," he expressed.

Brown assured me that by the time news of the investigation broke in the Houston Chronicle, the probe was already nearing completion.

"This issue had been going on for some time when it was reported. But the matter is already coming to conclusion," he said.

Adams admits that she was always confident that the situation would work itself out.

"You know God would never let us deal with more than we can bear," she closed.

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