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As we approach the annual blood letting called tax season, I wanted to take this opportunity to say a few things about how we might do things a little differently in America. Our current tax code is about 75,000 pages long. Most of those pages are written in such a way that only an IRS scribe or seasoned tax lawyer could decipher them. Just take this language for example which pertains to certain individuals who are self-employed … Read More.

You could feel the excitement on Capitol Hill last week! Pope Francis was at our nation’s Capitol, and Senators and other members of Congress got up earlier than usual in order to catch the bus to the White House, where President Obama was to greet the Pope. Read More.

A conference of the Association of Mature American Citizens (AMAC) held February 18-20, 2016 in Howey-in-the-Hills, Florida provided a perfect backdrop to premiere FAIRtax-America’s Big Solution. Attendance at the conference was limited to those AMAC members active in the Delegate program. The AMAC Delegate program is designed to give AMAC members a voice in Congress through representatives in each Congressional District. More than 100 attendees and guests discussed active political issues including tax reform, Medicare, Social Security, the presidential campaign and many more. 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.

The key debate question is, “What is wrong with the federal tax code and how to fix it?” 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.

Her first reaction was relatively logical—”That’s ridiculous,” she said, “I never received any notices.” 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.

To sort out some states’ income tax systems, it can take an accounting degree. 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 flat consumption tax is the least economically destructive tax system. Read More.

The idea of tying travel to taxes has been percolating in Washington for years. Read More.

Congress must halt the tax agency’s partisan scheming Read More.