No gift baskets for presenters at the Golden Globes this year. Seems the IRS is tired of getting short-changed when it comes to their cut of the booty.

The HFPA made its announcement Wednesday, shortly after the IRS stated that the two organizations had reached an agreement, in that the HFPA would take care of the back taxes for all gifts handed out until 2005 and provide celebrities who received goodies in 2006 with the appropriate income tax forms.

“We thought it only proper that we assume the tax burden for 2004 and 2005,” HFPA president Philip Berk said. “We felt it didn’t seem fair to ask those who had donated their services to pay additional tax after they have already filed tax returns for those years.”

There was no word on just how much the IRS collected from the Globe purveyors.

Good thing the HFPA is footing the back-taxes bill. No way could all those celebrities afford it!