Pop singer Britney Spears' company has been slapped with a tax lien by the state of California for owing nearly $24,000 in back taxes.
The State of California Franchise Tax Board put a lien on her company, Britney On Line Inc., for being delinquent $23,589.17 in its 2004 tax payments, according to E! News and Access Hollywood.
Spears has also has been hit with a court order directing her to pay more than $400,000 to her attorneys. She has been fighting legal battles with her ex-husband Kevin Federline and her parents over child custody and control over her finances.
BRITNEY SPEARS and TARA REID's troubles are set to become the stuff of comedy in a new off-Broadway show.
Jenn Harris will play Spears and Sarah Saltzberg will star as actress Reid in the upcoming premiere of Girls Day, Or Britney and Tara Stare into the Void and the Void Stares Back.
The "tragi-comedy," which debuts on 11 May (08) at the Ace of Clubs theatre in New York, also features an actor portraying Spears' ex Kevin Federline.
The plot of the play revolves around a fictitious afternoon Spears and Reid spend together, a month after the pop star checks out of a rehabilitation clinic.
Reports that Britney Spears has struck a commercial endoresement deal with a US fitness chain are false, according to her father Jamie, who says "there's no deal" between the singer and any fitness or gym group.
Rumors of the popstar's endorsement for Bally Total Fitness, rumored to be part of her comeback plan, have circulated online.
However, Chief Marketing Officer of Bally Total Fitness, John Wildman, has confirmed that "Britney Spears is not going to be our spokesperson. We don't have any comment regarding our relationship with Britney Spears."
Mr. Spears, who has conservatorship over his daughters finances following her mental and emotional breakdown earlier this year, told E! News, "Britney's not endorsing Bally. There's no deal. There's no truth to that."