The IRS would never push legal boundaries in order to pursue the ideological agenda of a political party in Washington D.C., right? Well, aside from that time that Lois Lerner used her position inside the IRS to target Tea Party Organizations in order to help Obama get re-elected in 2012, of course. While we all […]
“Lay it on the line”: Judge in Tea Party Case Orders IRS to Disclose Employee Names, Reasons…
A federal judge on Thursday ordered the IRS to name the specific employees the agency blames for targeting tea party groups for intrusive scrutiny and said the government must prove it has ceased the targeting. Judge Reggie B. Walton also said the IRS must explain the reasons for the delays for 38 groups that are […]
IRS Doled Out More Than $24B in Potentially Bogus Refunds…
The IRS doled out more than $24 billion in potentially bogus refunds claimed under several controversial tax credits in 2016, according to a new audit that said $118 million was even paid to people who weren’t authorized to work in the U.S. in the first place. Some $16.8 billion in payments were made on improper […]
Meet the Banksters Whistleblower: Lucifer’s Banker (VIDEO & TRANSCRIPT)…
Brad Birkenfield, author of Lucifer’s Banker: The Untold Story of How I Destroyed Swiss Bank Secrecy, recounts the efforts he uncovered by his employer to help its clients cheat the US government out of tens of $billions in taxes. But despite his working with the government closely to expose the gigantic conspiracy between US-based tax […]
Full Measure: IRS Money Grab…
Robert Johnson: The ultimate takeaway here is that civil forfeiture allows the government to take people’s property based on the suspicion of criminal wrongdoing, but without actually having to prove to a court that somebody did something wrong. And that takes the presumption of innocence and it turns it on its head…
IRS Seized Millions of Dollars from Innocent Citizens Because It Was Easier Than Going After Crooks…
A report from Treasury’s Inspector General found that the IRS misused a law aimed at cracking down on organized crime and terrorism to target innocent individuals and businesses. Agents adopted a policy of seizing cash before investigating for other wrongdoing because it was just easier to seize the money of innocent people than hardened criminals […]
JW Releases 695 Pages of Obama IRS Scandal Documents…
Judicial Watch today released 695 pages of new documents from the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) that contain admissions by IRS officials that the agency used “inappropriate political labels” to screen the tax-exempt applications of conservative organizations. Other records reveal that the IRS was going to require 501(c)(4) nonprofit organizations to restrict their alleged political…
Taxpayers Spend 6.1 Billion Hours, $234 Billion Per Year on Tax Compliance…
Taxpayers spend 6.1 billion hours a year just to comply with the federal tax code, according to experts at a Tax Foundation event on Monday. Pete Sepp, president of the National Taxpayers Union, said that tax compliance costs taxpayers $234 billion per year in direct costs and lost productivity. “The problem is the status quo—thinking […]
IRS Doesn’t Tell 1M Taxpaying Americans Illegals Stole Their Social Security Numbers…
The IRS has discovered more than 1 million Americans whose Social Security numbers were stolen by illegal immigrants, but officials never bothered to tell the taxpayers themselves, the agency’s inspector general said in a withering new report released Tuesday. Investigators first alerted the IRS to the problem five years ago, but it’s still not fixed, […]
New Protest Idiocy Lows: “Resisting” By Not Paying Federal Taxes…
If you thought the last round of protest idiocy was counterproductive, you ain’t seen nuthin’ yet. Just when you think they’ve hit rock bottom, the liberal protests hit new lows. The Guardian recently published an article detailing a revival in “tax resistance,” which is a practice of not paying your taxes to “resist” government…