Today on TAP: Trump wants to oust the Fed chair and the IRS commissioner. They need to stay, as checks against autocratic power and hack appointees.
Daniel Werfel
Posted inEconomic Policy
The Taxman Cometh
A new plan from the IRS lays out how the agency intends to revamp itself.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Closing the Earned Income Tax Credit Audit ‘Doom Loop’
More taxpayer education could get some people out of this IRS vortex, but the real issue is assumptions guiding the agency’s apparent fixation on certain Black filers.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Senate Republicans Claim to Care About Taxpayer Rights
In the first hearing for Daniel Werfel to head the IRS, Democrats praised the Inflation Reduction Act as Republicans derided the agency’s new funding.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Reanimating the Taxman
The impossible task ahead for the newly flush Internal Revenue Service