IRS
A new report from a progressive group highlights the company’s multiyear efforts to hobble direct tax filing to the IRS.
The agent can offer details that will “contradict sworn testimony to Congress by a senior political appointee,” their attorney said in a letter.
Commissioner Danny Werfel says higher audit rates are “off the table” for the middle class, contrary to relentless GOP messaging.
A critical office inside the IRS is supposed to help root out major tax evaders, but dysfunction and underfunding have diminished its power.
WHAT'S HAPPENING
Republicans have made a drama out of legislation to hire some 87,000 IRS employees. Either they don't understand the bill, or they're pretending not to.
“The GOP regards paying taxes not as a way of supporting the nation, but as an obligation to be avoided,” noted an editorial in The Charlotte Observer.
The first bill of the new House majority fulfills a promise to target spending but goes against pledges to balance the budget.
The release comes in the waning days of Democrats’ control of the House and as Trump’s fellow Republicans prepare to retake power in the chamber.
The "deferential" agency was reportedly overwhelmed by an army of Trump accountants and lawyers and the complexity of his tangled businesses.
Republicans called the release of Trump’s tax returns “a dangerous new weapon.”