Alphabet Inc.’s Google saved $3.6 billion in worldwide taxes in
2015 by moving 14.9 billion euros ($15.5 billion) to a Bermuda
shell company, new regulatory filings in the Netherlands reveal. Read More.
Taxpayers paid for “excessive and inappropriate” lodging and
travel costs, including for one employee who managed to travel
381 days of the year. Read More.
More than two dozen IRS employees traveled for more than half of
fiscal 2015, incurring total costs of more than $1.4 million,
according to a report from the staff of Senate Finance Committee
Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah). Read More.
The “John Doe” summons seeks to identify all United States
Coinbase customers who transferred convertible virtual currency
from 2013 to 2015. Read More.
Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives are accelerating
efforts to craft a sweeping tax reform bill for 2017 and looking
at ways to smooth the transition to a new tax system for some
businesses, the House Republican tax chief said on Wednesday. Read More.
Republican leaders managed to derail impeachment of IRS
Commissioner John Koskinen on Tuesday, forcing the debate back to
a committee for more study, where it will die when Congress
adjourns at the end of this year. Read More.
Over the years, Apple Inc. has become the poster child for U.S.
multinationals accused of sheltering overseas profits to avoid
the IRS. What’s gone largely unnoticed is that it’s been paid
more than half a billion dollars by the U.S. government to do
just that. Read More.
A “corrupt” Internal Revenue Service still is shooting down
advocates for conservative causes, especially if they have the
words “tea party” in their names, even though courts have told
the bureaucrats to stop. Read More.
President-elect Donald Trump could face a decision that may
affect whether his tax returns will continue to be audited
throughout his four-year term of office. Read More.
A federal court in the Northern District of California has
entered an order authorizing the IRS to serve a John Doe summons
on Coinbase Inc. Read More.
House Republicans are talking with President-elect Donald Trump’s
transition team about how to fashion the biggest U.S. tax
overhaul in three decades, the chairman of the House Ways and
Means Committee says. Read More.