Tax Law

Dan Froomkin

IRS Buckled To GOP Pressure On Secret Donations, Lawyer Says

HuffingtonPost.com | Dan Froomkin | Posted 10.08.2011

The Internal Revenue Service succumbed to pressure from Republican members of Congress last month when it suddenly shut down its examinations into whe...

We Need Freedom From Religion Not Just Freedom of Religion

Frank Schaeffer | Posted 05.25.2011

Frank Schaeffer

Why does the Roman Catholic Church, which has done so little to make up for pedophilia abuses, have a tax exempt status? Why do the Scientologists?

CHART: America's Strangest Taxes, Including Cocaine, Sex & Blueberries

The Huffington Post | Lila Shapiro | Posted 05.25.2011

One of the financial perks of illegal drug dealing is presumably a tax-free income. But in Tennessee between 2005 and 2009, if you were dealing illeg...

Justice Bader Ginsburg's Husband, Martin Ginsburg, Dies

Posted 05.25.2011

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Martin Ginsburg, the husband of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and a prominent lawyer in his own right, died Sunday from...

Tax Favors, IBM, and the Murder of Vernon Hunter

David Cay Johnston | Posted 05.25.2011

David Cay Johnston

The important aspects of the Joe Stack suicide attack story that have been left out by the mainstream media relate to how corrupt and outdated tax law-writing is in this country.

Senator Scott Brown On Austin Terror Attack: "People Are Frustrated"

Bill Lichtenstein | Posted 05.25.2011

Bill Lichtenstein

In what Fox News is calling his first national TV interview since being elected, Scott Brown pointed to the public's frustration with Washington when he was asked about Joe Stack.

Austin Pilot Suicide Note: Joe Stack Motivated By Tax Law In IRS Attack

New York Times | Posted 05.25.2011

In his suicide note, the computer software engineer who flew a small plane into a building with Internal Revenue Service offices in Texas on Thursday ...

More Charities Seek Tax Break for Donors, Costing U.S. Billions

New York Times | STEPHANIE STROM | Posted 05.25.2011

Experts say nonprofits are skillfully exploiting the tax code's broad and elastic definition of what constitutes such a charity, making it difficult f...

A Tax Lawyer Refutes Glenn Beck's Call to Lawlessness

Hale "Bonddad" Stewart | Posted 05.25.2011

Hale

The bottom line is Beck and his ilk are nothing more than 10 year old children who scream when they don't get their way.