In 2022, The IRS Went After The Very Poorest Taxpayers
(ZH) — On Wednesday, Syracuse University’s Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC) released data provided to it by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) on audits performed by…
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Biden’s Bloated IRS Will Skewer Taxpayers
By James Bovard The Internal Revenue Service is perhaps the ultimate sacred cow in Washington. It is the “goose that lays the golden eggs” for…
IRS Delays $600 Gig-Tax Rule
By Tyler Durden The Internal Revenue Service on Friday announced they are delaying new tax-reporting requirements for millions of Americans who made more than $600…
Ken Griffin Sues IRS Over Leaked Returns, Says Employees ‘Deliberately Stole’ Confidential Data
By Tyler Durden Billionaire hedge fund owner Ken Griffin has sued the IRS and the Treasury Department after his tax information was ‘unlawfully disclosed’ as…
IRS Warns Americans To Report Annual PayPal, Venmo Transactions Exceeding $600 Per Year
By Tyler Durden The Internal Revenue Service is warning Americans that they need to prepare to report transactions of at least $600 per year through…
Expanding IRS Tyranny to Reduce Inflation?
By Jacob Hornberger One of the interesting aspects of President Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act was the allocation of $80 billion in increased funding for the…
Weaponizing the Bureaucracy: Who Will Protect Us from the Government’s Standing Army?
By John W. Whitehead and Nisha Whitehead “A standing military force, with an overgrown Executive will not long be safe companions to liberty.”—James Madison The…
Congress Is Supersizing the IRS. Here’s Why That’s Bad News for Everyday Americans
By Brad Polumbo Americans love their fast-food supersized. But supersizing the Internal Revenue Service? Probably not so popular. That’s evidently of little concern to a…
IRS To Require Facial Recognition To View Tax Returns
By Tyler Durden The US Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has partnered with a Virginia-based private identification firm which requires a facial recognition selfie among other…
Dems Reportedly Scrap IRS Bank Reporting Plan After Manchin Slams “Screwed Up” Surveillance Scheme
By Tyler Durden Score one for freedom and privacy (for now) as Democratic lawmakers have scrapped their plans for a dragnet-style IRS surveillance across Americans’…
After Backlash Over $600 IRS Bank Surveillance, Democrats Revise Proposal
By Tyler Durden Senate Democrats on Tuesday plan to release a reworked version of a Biden administration proposal to surveil US bank accounts – after…
An Emboldened, Super-Funded IRS to Target Bank Depositors
By Stefan Gleason Insidious plans are afoot in Washington to give IRS officials another $80 billion for auditors and then unleash them on bank account…
Former Fed President: Government Snooping on Bank Transactions Over $600 a “Massive Search Without a Search Warrant”
By Jon Miltimore A proposal from the Biden Administration that would require banks to monitor personal accounts and report all financial transactions over $600 to…
The Cryptocurrency Surveillance Provision Buried in the Infrastructure Bill is a Disaster for Digital Privacy
By Rainey Reitman The forthcoming Senate draft of Biden’s infrastructure bill—a 2,000+ page bill designed to update the United States’ roads, highways, and digital infrastructure—contains…