In With The Loan Sharks: The IRS Hires Private Debt Collectors

The IRS is attempting – for the third time – to use private debt collection companies to recover unpaid taxes from delinquent taxpayers. But experts warn that using such companies could lead to unfair treatment for borrowers and an increase in imposter tax scams.

MintPress News Desk
By MintPress News Desk

WASHINGTON, D.C.-- In 2009, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) decided to end a three-year program that used private debt collectors to chase down delinquent taxpayers after an internal report found that it was actually losing the government money and that government employees were much more efficient at collecting debt than their private sector

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Republicans Torpedo Effort To Force Release Of Trump’s Tax Returns

229 Republicans voted down measure that would have forced the IRS to publish President Donald Trump’s tax returns.

Nika Knight
By Nika Knight
House Speaker Paul Ryan of Wis. listens at left as Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Ky. speaks to reporters outside the White House in Washington, Monday, Feb. 27, 2017, following their meeting with Donald Trump. (AP/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

(REPORT) --- In a vote Monday night almost exclusively along party lines, a measure to force the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to reveal President Donald Trump's tax returns was blocked by the U.S. House. In all, 229 Republicans voted to help Trump keep his tax returns secret. (Roll call here.) "This is despicable," tweeted Rep. Barbara Lee

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The IRS Will Soon Be Able To Revoke Your Passport Over Unpaid Taxes

The consolidation of authority into agencies like the TSA and IRS should act as a canary in the coal mine to those worried about the suppression of their freedom of movement.

Shaun Bradley
By Shaun Bradley

(ANALYSIS) --- As emotions intensify over Trump’s recent immigration ban, the State Department and IRS have quietly used it as a smokescreen to roll out a new policy that targets U.S. citizens for unpaid taxes. The passports of these individuals can now be revoked and their citizenship status undermined at the behest of one of the government’s

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IRS ‘Accidentally’ Lost Thousands Of Emails Regarding Targeting Of Tea Party

The IRS’s inspector general told the committee that IRS workers erased hundreds of computer backup tapes that “most likely” contained as many as 24,000 emails to and from former IRS official Lois Lerner.

Associated Press
By Associated Press
former Internal Revenue Service (IRS) official Lois Lerner on Capitol Hill

WASHINGTON  — The head of the House Oversight Committee said Thursday it "defies any sense of logic" that IRS employees mistakenly erased computer backup tapes containing thousands of emails related to the tax agency's tea party scandal. The IRS's inspector general told the committee that IRS workers erased hundreds of computer backup tapes that

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New IRS Rules On Dark Money Likely Won’t Be Ready Before 2016 Election

“For the people who are pinning their hopes on IRS rules changing how these groups operate, I think they’re kidding themselves, … I don’t think it’s going to happen.”

Theodoric Meyer, ProPublica
By Theodoric Meyer, ProPublica

Photo: Light Brigading/cc/flickr The Internal Revenue Service says it won't come out with new proposed rules for so-called dark money groups until late spring at the earliest, increasing the likelihood that no changes will take effect before the 2016 elections. These groups — social welfare nonprofits that can engage in politics, but do

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Whistleblowers: IRS Officials Behind ‘Fraudulent’ Multi-Billion Dollar Corporate Tax Giveaways

The allegations include claims that senior IRS officials have “intentionally undermined the authority of the IRS Whistleblower Office” to avoid taking action “in cases involving billions in corporate taxes due.” The IRS also refuses to enforce laws for “large corporate taxpayers,”.

Nafeez Ahmed
By Nafeez Ahmed
corporate welfare

A 10-year veteran Internal Revenue Service (IRS) attorney has demanded a Congressional audit of the IRS to investigate the agency’s alleged role in allowing American corporations to illegally avoid paying billions of dollars in taxes at the same time the agency is cracking down on individuals and small businesses. In a letter to Treasury

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