Host and singer Toby Keith arrives at the 2012 CMT Music Awards in Nashville, Tennessee June 6, 2012 (Reuters)
The New York location of country music star Toby Keith's chain of restaurants owes more than a quarter-million dollars in sales taxes to the state.
The Post-Standard of Syracuse reports that a tax warrant filed by the state earlier this month seeks $107,000 owed by Toby Keith's I Love this Bar & Grill at the Destiny USA shopping mall in Syracuse.
Keith's Syracuse bar, which opened last year, also owes more than $145,000 in sales taxes from earlier in 2013.
The musician's chain of restaurants, named for the title of one of his hit songs, features guitar-shaped bars, beer in mason jars and traditional southern food.
The Phoenix, Arizona-based chain has 16 locations in 12 states, with five more restaurants planned.
A call to the chain's corporate office wasn't returned.
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