At the end of October, I experienced another historic week in
D.C. with the change of the Speaker of the House from Congressman
John Boehner (OH-8) to former House Ways & Means Committee
Chairman Paul Ryan (WI-1). Read More.
We have reached a crossroads on tax reform! And the FAIRtax
movement is positioned to take advantage of a two-to-three year
window to change the course of history. Read More.
The media, both liberal and conservative, is proclaiming that
there will be “tax reform” in 2017. Many Members of Congress,
both liberal and conservative, have announced that there will be
“tax reform” in 2017. Read More.
Because the FAIRtax does not “pre-tax” consumption like the
existing income and payroll taxes do, the shoppers go to the
store with not 65% to 75% of their earnings to spend because of
withholding, but with 100% of their paycheck except for any state
deductions. Read More.
Tax cheats can breathe a little easier. The gun-toting Internal
Revenue Service investigators who send felons to prison are
retiring in droves and there’s no one to replace them. Read More.
Staff at Wisconsin’s nearly extinct speech regulator misled their
board about the agency’s deep involvement in a politically driven
John Doe investigation months before the board authorized the
probe. Read More.
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.
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.
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.