Lauryn Hill Charged With Tax Evasion June 7, 2012, 1:25 pm Federal prosecutors have charged the singer and actress Lauryn Hill with failing to file income tax returns for three years during which she earned more than $1.6 million. Prosecutors in New Jersey said in a court document that Ms. Hill, a five-time Grammy Award winner, did not file tax returns in 2005, 2006, and 2007, even though she owns and operates four corporations, tours as a musician and earns royalties from recordings and films she has made. She is scheduled to appear before a magistrate in federal court in Newark on June 29 to answer the charges. Ms. Hill, 37, of South Orange, N.J., got her start in music as a singer with the Fugees in the early 1990s and started a solo career in 1998, releasing the critically acclaimed album, "The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill."