Showing posts with label tax law. Show all posts
Showing posts with label tax law. Show all posts

Thursday, January 18, 2024

Congressman calls for IRS investigation of nonprofit supporting Jan. 6 rioters : NPR

Congressional Democrats are raising alarms about a nonprofit group that provides financial support for defendants charged in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, questioning whether the organization's apparent support for Donald Trump's presidential campaign may violate federal tax law...

Friday, October 23, 2020

Republican senator 'personally benefited from tax change he sought'

Ron Johnson, the senator from Wisconsin who has led the Republican campaign in the Senate of making unfounded claims about Joe Biden’s son Hunter, is facing a host of questions about his own ethics, including whether he personally benefited from a change in tax law that he sought in 2017. A letter sent by Johnson to the Senate ethics committee in May has revealed the senator began the process of selling a company he partly owned in February 2018, just months after he insisted the Trump administration change a portion of the tax law in a way that ultimately benefited the sale. The issue has become a focus of the Congressional Integrity Project, a Democratic watchdog group that is seeking to expose allegations of corruption within the Republican ranks.....
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/oct/21/senator-ron-johnson-republican-tax-change-benefit


Tuesday, July 7, 2020

Has the IRS Hit Bottom? — ProPublica

Every year, the IRS annual report is an opportunity to measure how effectively the U.S. government has sabotaged its own ability to enforce its tax laws. This year’s report signals historic lows for U.S. tax enforcement.
https://www.propublica.org/article/has-the-irs-hit-bottom

Saturday, March 31, 2018

Why Does OMB Want Authority Over Tax Law? - Mother Jones

Politico reports on an obscure bureaucratic struggle currently taking place behind the scenes: The White House is poised to give its budget office greater control over some of the Treasury Department's regulations, handing budget director Mick Mulvaney a victory in a months-long power struggle with Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, according to three sources familiar with the discussions....
https://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2018/03/why-does-omb-want-authority-over-tax-law/







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