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Amazon tangles with Warren on Twitter
Amazon on Thursday engaged in a heated Twitter exchange with Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) after the lawmaker claimed that it and other large corporations “exploit loopholes and tax havens to pay close to nothing in taxes.” Read More.
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The Grassroots Corner March 29, 2021
🇺🇸 The Grassroots Corner - Week Beginning 3/29/21: “Meet Dave Heidbreder” Read More.
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Is New York City Dead? Where We Go From Here
Will New York City ever recover from the pandemic? Read More.
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Sanders proposes bigger tax hikes than White House
Senate Budget Committee Chairman Bernie Sanders is proposing tax increases that are even bigger than the ones President Joe Biden is considering. Read More.
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Suez Canal blockage forces operators to reroute ships
Dredgers are working to remove hundreds of thousands of cubic feet of sand around the bow of the 1,300-foot Ever Given Read More.
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The Chairman’s Report March 26, 2021
The FAIRtax has always been a remarkable thing. But now, nearly 30 years after its creation, our appreciation of just how remarkable it is continues to grow. Read More.
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New Tax Credit Can Save Businesses Up To $14,000 Per Employee
While the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) garners most of the attention for small business relief, the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act of 2020 also created the Employee Retention Credit (ERC), which provided eligible employers a refund on their 2020 federal payroll expenses such as Social Security and Medicare taxes. Read More.
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Stocks higher as bond yields steady, Intel jumps
Durable goods orders unexpectedly fell in February Read More.
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Zoom Paid $0 in Federal Income Taxes on 4,000% Profit Increase During Pandemic: Report
“If you paid $14.99 a month for a Zoom Pro membership, you paid more to Zoom than it paid in federal income taxes even as it made $660 million in profits last year.” Read More.
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Full FairTax truth
Recently, nationally funded ads misled Pennsylvanians about the FairTax. These ads claimed the FairTax will add 23 percent to the cost of everything. This is true, but the ads omitted the most important part of the tax-reform plan. Read More.
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IRS Backlog: 2.4 Million 2019 Tax Returns Still In Pipeline
The Internal Revenue Service’s backlog of tax returns is way down, but it’s still significant, according to IRS operations statistics updated yesterday. Read More.
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IRS says unemployed workers can likely claim $10,200 tax break without filing amended return
Rettig said the agency hoped to make an official announcement in the ‘near future’ Read More.
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Biden determined to tax rich after windfalls during crisis
President Joe Biden’s economic team at the White House is determined to make good on his campaign pledge to raise taxes on the rich, emboldened by mounting data showing how well America’s wealthy did financially during the pandemic. Read More.
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Letter: Taxes too complicated? Blame Congress
Most American adults can empathize with the plight of Christian Sagers, whose recent editorial aptly describes the horrors of ordinary citizens trying to navigate our ridiculous federal tax code (“Confessions of an honest tax filer (and why the system is absurd),” March 11). Read More.

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