Byzantine Tax Laws Threaten To Make Us All Tax Cheats
The Department of Justice is suing several tax preparers for filing fraudulent returns, but even honest filers risk running afoul of tax laws.
The Department of Justice is suing several tax preparers for filing fraudulent returns, but even honest filers risk running afoul of tax laws.
The president wants to raise the rate from 21 percent to 28 percent, despite it being well-established that this is the most economically-destructive method to raise government funds.
I shouldn't have to spend so much money on an accountant every year. But I don't really have a choice.
Linda Upham-Bornstein's "Mr. Taxpayer versus Mr. Tax Spender" delivers an evenhanded view of American tax resistance movements.
Liberty to engage in voluntary transactions and keep our wealth varies across North America.
DeSantis says the new, single tax rate would mean "lower taxes for everyone" but that only demonstrates that he hasn't thought too deeply about how a flat tax would work.
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The only effective means of keeping tax collectors from misusing data is keeping it from them.
Out with the old corruption and in with fresh scandals.
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Americans collectively spend billions of hours each year preparing their taxes. Rather than adding a government-run website into the mix, politicians should just simplify the tax code.
The partisan and constitutional dangers of letting the IRS police speech are simply too great.
A new report details a startling trend: Federal agencies with no obvious law enforcement purview are spending millions each year on guns and ammunition.
In 2019, discretionary spending was $1.338 trillion—or some $320 billion less than what Republicans want that side of the budget to be.
Contra the famous quotation from Oliver Wendell Holmes, there's nothing particularly civilized about the way our governments spend the money we provide.
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Maybe taxpayers would make fewer mistakes if the federal tax code weren't so hopelessly complex.
The agency’s new report tells us practically nothing of significance.
Eliminating taxation on compensation for being a human guinea pig is just good public policy.
Uncle Sam's own workers owe $1.5 billion, and growing, in unpaid taxes.
Nothing focuses the mind quite so intently on the sheer stupidity of government as doing your taxes.
A coming crackdown on $1.6 billion in unreported tips will continue the IRS' long and ugly history of targeting low-income Americans.
A $2.1 million penalty for failing to file a form on time reveals the agency’s true nature.
Should an elderly grandmother be forced to hand over millions of dollars to the government for failing to file a particular form?
Getting rid of the much-despised tax agency would be a good idea. It’s unlikely to happen anytime soon.
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The policy has some bipartisan support, despite the fact that it has mostly been a failure since its inception.
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This latest expense is yet more evidence that sweeping student loan forgiveness will end up doing considerable economic harm.
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Possibly the federal government's most efficient pandemic spending effort.
When taxing authorities get more resources and power, they will find ways to make everyone pay more.
She’s asking the Supreme Court to consider whether this seizure is an excessive fine under the Eighth Amendment.
"Most" new IRS hires, claims a gullible FactCheck.org, "will provide customer services."