Donald Trump’s administration is giving churches a green light to explicitly endorse political candidates, without fear of losing their nonprofit tax status, under a proposed court settlement. And a leading figure on the Religious Left insists that’s a good thing for Democrats. The Internal Revenue Service — now led by …
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Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the Internal Revenue Service, Billy Long, is famous for mixing it up on the social media platform X, previously Twitter. Representing Missouri in the House, Long once earned the title of Congress’ most prolific tweeter. A Rolling Stone audit of Long’s social media diet on …
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Chaos continued to reign supreme at the Internal Revenue Service after President Donald Trump ousted the agency’s interim commissioner only three days after appointing him. Interim Commissioner Gary Shapley was ousted on Friday, about 72-hours after assuming the role on Tuesday. It’s not entirely clear if Shapley did anything that …
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Donald Trump has taken extreme measures in his second term to deport foreign nationals legally residing in the U.S., such as revoking the visas of students involved in pro-Palestine protests on campuses around the country. Now, as The New York Times reports, the administration will look to widen the scope …
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Top officials at the Internal Revenue Service are predicting a large drop in tax revenue this year due to individuals and businesses either not filing or not paying all due taxes, IRS sources told The Washington Post. According to internal projections, the IRS could lose 10 percent of its revenue, …
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Elon Musk and the so-called Department of Government Efficiency are operating unconstitutionally, and their actions must be reversed. That’s the striking claim made in a lawsuit filed by 14 state attorneys general on Feb. 13 in federal court. The lawsuit runs 60 pages, detailing the chaos Musk and his DOGE …
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President Joe Biden should commute the sentence of Charles Littlejohn, the former IRS contractor who was sentenced in January 2024 to five years in prison. By disclosing the federal tax records of Donald Trump, Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and other billionaires to news organizations, Littlejohn enabled vital reporting about how …
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One of the most intriguing and little-known corners of the music industry’s vast, seedy underbelly centers around a bunch of rare records released between 1976 and 1978 for one purpose only: scamming the IRS. During this two-year period, a mix of crafty and bumbling crooks took advantage of a tax …
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President Joe Biden and Democrats in Congress passed the Inflation Reduction Act in 2022, securing billions in funding for the Internal Revenue Service to bolster its ability to go after corporations and the super-wealthy. Republicans haven’t been happy — likely because they’re well aware of how the one-percenters they cater …
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The House Ways and Means Committee can obtain former President Donald Trump‘s tax returns, the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Tuesday. The decision was spurred by Rep. Richard Neal (D-Mass.), the committee chairman, writing to the IRS in April 2019 requesting Trump’s federal income tax returns, saying the committee …
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