Federal government
Trump-style tax relief: IRS could cut up to half its workforce(The Heartlander) — The IRS may cut up to half of its workforce, offering Americans a different kind of “tax relief.” The cuts are part of President Donald Trump’s plan… Read More
Taxes
IRS releases new tax brackets, standard deduction(The Center Square) – The Internal Revenue Service on Tuesday released details about the new income tax brackets for 2025. The IRS also released updated numbers on several other tax… Read More
Biden administration
GOP leadership decries alleged retaliation against Hunter Biden whistleblowers(The Center Square) – A coalition of leading Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives is raising concerns about allegations that the Internal Revenue Service has retaliated against whistleblowers. IRS… Read More
President Donald Trump
Op-Ed: Leaker of Trump taxes worked for Biden donor that just won a big new IRS contractThe Internal Revenue Service recently awarded a lucrative contract to help modernize its computer databases to the same Washington firm, Booz Allen Hamilton, that employed the man who pleaded guilty… Read More
IRS
IRS lost millions of taxpayer records that could be used for identity theft(The Center Square) – The Internal Revenue Service lost millions of taxpayer records and federal employees don’t know where they have gone. Lawmakers want answers and accountability for the IRS… Read More
Biden administration, Taxes
Recent IRS controversies raise doubts about auditing army’s potential bias(The Center Square) – President Joe Biden’s call for funding for 87,000 IRS agents to audit Americans has raised questions about whether the new rash of auditing will target poorer… Read More
National
Senator files bill to restrain IRS ahead of plan to hire 87,000 employees(The Center Square) – U.S. Sen. Roger Marshall has introduced two bills to restrain the Internal Revenue Service ahead of the agency’s planned expansion. Marshall, R-Kansas, filed the … Read More
National
Lois Lerner, former head of IRS division that targeted conservatives in 2012 election, professes little knowledge of Tea Party movementLois Lerner, who presided over and then apologized for the IRS targeting of conservatives before the 2012 election, has since professed not to know much about the Tea… Read More
Biden administration
Americans expect beefed up IRS to target political opponents, audit lower and middle class Americans(The Center Square) – More Americans believe the latest legislation to hire 87,000 Internal Revenue Service agents is part of a plan to audit middle and lower class Americans and… Read More
Immigration
Budd proposes amendment to hire more Border Patrol, ICE agents instead of IRS agents(The Center Square) – U.S. Rep. Ted Budd, R-N.C., has proposed an amendment to the Democrats' $740 billion Inflation Reduction Act to redirect funding currently allocated to hire 87,000 new… Read More
Economy
Critics: Small businesses in the crosshairs of new IRS auditing ‘army’(The Center Square) – Senate Democrats’ recently passed $740 billion health care and climate legislation has taken criticism on many fronts, but critics are raising the alarm that a major… Read More
National
Gaetz introduces bill to ban IRS from acquiring ammunition(The Center Square) – U.S. Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Florida, has introduced a bill to ban the Internal Revenue Service from acquiring ammunition. The Disarm the IRS Act would ban the… Read More
Crime
St. Louis woman pleads guilty in $291,000 in federal COVID-19 fund scam(The Center Square) – A St. Louis woman who admitted to fraudulently obtaining a $291,000 Paycheck Protection Program loan in 2020 will be sentenced on Sept. 21. Porshia L. Thomas,… Read More
State Government
IRS data: Illinois lost 101K individuals and their $8.5 billion in income(The Center Square) – Gov. J.B. Pritzker insists Illinois has more than 13 million people, but analysis of new Internal Revenue Service data show the state continues to lose taxpayers… Read More
National
As tax deadline passes, IRS still has millions of unprocessed returns from last year(The Center Square) – The last weekend for Americans to file their taxes before today’s deadline has passed, but the Internal Revenue Service still faces major backlogs for individual and… Read More
National
Pressure from lawmakers grows as IRS begins new tax season with ‘continued confusion’(The Center Square) – Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle are pressuring the Internal Revenue Service over ongoing problems and unaddressed issues from last year’s filing season even as… Read More
National
Analysis: Americans overwhelmingly oppose plan to hire IRS agents to audit Americans(The Center Square) – Included in the Democrats’ Build Back Better Act currently before the U.S. Senate is a proposal to allocate $80 billion to the Internal Revenue Service to… Read More
National
President Biden proposes the monitoring of Americans’ bank accounts, Republicans vow to fight itD.C. – President Biden has sparked nationwide outrage for his recent tax proposal that plans to bolster perhaps America’s most hated governmental institution: the IRS. Biden’s… Read More