Rapper Offset has paid off a $1.5 million tax debt that Uncle Sam demanded amid his bitter divorce from Cardi B, Us Weekly can exclusively report.
The Internal Revenue Service filed docs on December 26, 2025, releasing a lien accusing the entertainer of owing $1,575,266.73 for the 12 months 2022.
The lien was originally filed on April 3, 2024. The bill being paid off brought Offset’s tax debt down substantially.
As Us first reported, Offset was hit with a separate six-figure lien on October 15 by the IRS. The lien claims the musician owes $486,426.35 in taxes for 2023. Offset and Cardi split in 2024.
One other lien that has yet to be released was filed by the Georgia Department of Revenue in March 2025 for an alleged $292,000 owed for 2021.
The Georgia Department of Revenue bill listed the unique amount due as $167,916 but the quantity swelled with interest ($53,000), penalties ($40,000), collection fees ($33,000), together with other costs.
The overall of the liens yet to be released involves $778,426.
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Cardi spoke out about her divorce from Offset in September 2025, claiming that taxes were considered one of the explanations the case was taking an extended time.
“The one reason why I’m still married is because someone wants me to pay for his or her taxes,” she alleged. “Y’all wanna know the tea? The one way I can get out of my marriage is that if I pay for someone else’s taxes, despite the fact that I pay for my very own, and provides them considered one of my properties. I’m fighting for that, I’m gonna fight for that. This shouldn’t be no love s***.”
“I’m not gonna live my life because on a contract I’m practically still married because someone wanna hold me hostage if I don’t give them hundreds of thousands of dollars to get out of it,” she continued. “So, that’s what I’m going through in life. … Y’all want me to remarry and stuff to have one other baby and stuff like that. I’m doing things now that makes me glad. I did it the suitable way the primary time.”
Cardi and Offset were first linked in 2017. They began dating a short while later. The exes share three children: Kulture Kiari Cephus, 7, Wave Set Cephus, 4, and Blossom Belle, 12 months.
On September 17, 2025,, the Bodak Yellow rapper announced she was expecting a fourth child together with her boyfriend and NFL star Stefon Diggs.
As Us first reported, Offset can be facing a lawsuit over an alleged assault at a Florida club in 2021. Leamsy Izquierdo and Humberto Crespo sued Offset, claiming he attacked them unprovoked.
The 2 alleged victims claimed they were struck within the face, body and head. Their lawsuit said they needed medical attention and sustained injuries in consequence of Offset’s attack
A Miami judge granted Izquierdo and Crespo a default judgment totaling $232,000. Offset has been attempting to vacate the judgment for months.
A hearing has been set for February 2026. where Offset will make his case against the judgment being thrown out.



