Media reports on the IRS’s Direct File pilot program tend to repeat a few key talking points: claiming that the program is “free,” widely accessible, and popular with taxpayers. But these misleadingly rosy narratives overlook serious flaws with the program…
In 2023, the Criminal Investigation Division (CI) of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) sought to hire special agents deploying firearms who “must be willing to use force up to and including the use of deadly force.” Rep. Barry Moore thinks that was…
The new Trump administration and congressional Republicans are collaborating on a new tax bill that they hope to pass into law by the end of April. The most important conditions in the prospective bill, by far, will be extending the…
There’s a little-known tax that’ll make you want a drink when you find out about it. And it’s actually less a tax than a grift. One that’s used to make Americans pay to subsidize the governments of Puerto Rico and…
The new year will bring a new administration, and I’ll be watching to see if President-elect Donald Trump’s team finally puts an end to the worldwide taxation of individual Americans’ income. Fixing this is imperative. It would not only be…
The prospect of an Internal Revenue Service “weaponized” against political opponents, with collection agents packing guns, is raising concern in Congress. On the other hand, a more basic and longstanding problem has managed to escape notice. The IRS gets workers’ tax…
Yesterday, as I was driving down to Rancho Mirage, I got a call from my bank telling me I was overdrawn. The bank is called First Credit Bank. It is a small entity, and I have been a depositor since…
Ah, February. A month of hope. The first whispering lilts of springtime are upon us. Our old friend from Pennsylvania — Punxsutawney Phil — emerged from his burrow on Gobbler’s Knob this month and announced that winter will be over…
On Monday in Washington, D.C., Charles E. Littlejohn faces the music. Whether he hears “Marche Funèbre” or The Benny Hill Show’s theme song erupt in the courtroom, we find out shortly after 10 a.m. Littlejohn, a Booz Allen Hamilton employee…
