The free Direct File program is being tested in 13 states this tax season.
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Warren and Jayapal Raise Revolving-Door Concerns at the IRS
The agency and its prospective nominees are adopting stricter ethics standards following a 2021 investigation.
Posted inEconomic Policy
What Census Poverty Estimates May Miss
Pandemic unemployment programs are significantly underreported, giving a misimpression about their effectiveness.
Posted inEconomic Policy
The Predators Making Big Profits From Poverty
The shady tax refund industry skims onerous junk fees from low-income returns and shares personal taxpayer data in the process.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Secretary Yellen, Where Are the Crypto Tax Regulations?
After almost two years, the Treasury Department hasn’t even started trying to force crypto companies to pay what they owe.
Posted inEconomic Policy
The Auto-CR Dilemma
Today’s X-Date: If the debt ceiling deal passes, the military budget goes up and IRS funding gets slashed. But if Congress doesn’t pass the subsequent spending bills, that reverses.
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Republican Debt Ceiling Lies
Today’s X-Date: GOP members insist they’re worried about the national debt. It ain’t true.
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The IRS Takes a Welcome Step Into the 20th Century
Maybe by 2100 America can have a proper tax authority.
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McCarthy’s Losing Game of Debt Chicken
Today on TAP: Everything has to break right for the hapless Speaker to pass his budget, and even then Biden holds all the cards.
Posted inEconomic Policy
The Taxman Cometh
A new plan from the IRS lays out how the agency intends to revamp itself.