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Momentum Builds to Tax Consumption More, Income Less
The Donald Trump-led Republican presidential field has attracted outsize attention for eccentricity. With less notice, it is also pointing America to a very different tax system. Read More.
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Tax Burdens: Taxation’s Worst States
To sort out some states’ income tax systems, it can take an accounting degree. Read More.
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IRS’s Outdated Fraud Prevention System Could Cost Taxpayers Millions
The Internal Revenue Service’s systems for detecting fraud may wind up costing taxpayers millions, a Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration audit found . Read More.
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A Consumption Tax Would Be Fair and Efficient
A flat consumption tax is the least economically destructive tax system. Read More.
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Your Passport Could Be Cancelled If You Owe IRS
The idea of tying travel to taxes has been percolating in Washington for years. Read More.
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Impeach IRS chief John Koskinen
Congress must halt the tax agency’s partisan scheming Read More.
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Resisting FOIA Request, IRS Ordered to Pay Attorney’s Fees in Case Impacting Release of Federal Records
A judge has ordered the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to pay $239,400 in attorneys’ fees after the agency tried to deny a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request for electronic versions of records. Read More.
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It looks like President Ted Cruz would reopen investigation of IRS abuses
Cruz did not mince words about what he thought of the Obama Justice Department’s failure to prosecute Lerner and her cohorts. Read More.
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Lynch: Lois Lerner was protected by prosecutorial discretion
The decision to pass on the matter lands in the lap of Attorney General Loretta Lynch. Read More.
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Lynch: Lois Lerner was protected by prosecutorial discretion
The decision to pass on the matter lands in the lap of Attorney General Loretta Lynch. Read More.
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What does Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations have to do with the FAIRtax?
What does Adam Smith have to do with the FairTax? Everything. Read More.
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What does Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations have to do with the FAIRtax?
What does Adam Smith have to do with the FairTax? Everything. Read More.
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Will DOJ go after Lerner, IRS? Not likely, says Judicial Watch
In response to an open records lawsuit filed by Judicial Watch, the IRS revealed to Lerner conducted government business using a second personal email account registered under a phony name. Read More.
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Will DOJ go after Lerner, IRS? Not likely, says Judicial Watch
In response to an open records lawsuit filed by Judicial Watch, the IRS revealed to Lerner conducted government business using a second personal email account registered under a phony name. Read More.
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Taxpayers Received $572 Million in Excess Obamacare Tax Credits
The IRS’s processing of tax returns that reported or claimed Premium Tax Credits during the 2015 filing season was challenged by delays from some health insurance marketplaces and exchanges, and overpayments of Advance Premium Tax Credits Read More.

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