Tag: IRS

FILE - A sign outside the Internal Revenue Service building is seen on May 4, 2021, in Washington. A former contractor for the Internal Revenue Service has been charged with leaking tax information to news outlets about a government official and thousands of the country’s wealthiest people. The Justice Department said in a statement Friday, Sept. 29, 2023, that 38-year-old Charles Edward Littlejohn of Washington, D.C. is accused of stealing tax return information and giving it to two different news outlets between 2018 and 2020. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

Finance and Economy

New IRS funding from Democratic law will boost revenue by $561 billion, Treasury says

Zach Halaschak · February 6, 2024 3:14 pm

Then-President Donald Trump listens to then-Florida Gov. Rick Scott.

Judge questions DOJ leniency in Trump tax leaker case, gives five-year prison sentence

Ashley Oliver · January 29, 2024 1:05 pm

FILE - A sign outside the Internal Revenue Service building is seen on May 4, 2021, in Washington. A former contractor for the Internal Revenue Service has been charged with leaking tax information to news outlets about a government official and thousands of the country’s wealthiest people. The Justice Department said in a statement Friday, Sept. 29, 2023, that 38-year-old Charles Edward Littlejohn of Washington, D.C. is accused of stealing tax return information and giving it to two different news outlets between 2018 and 2020. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

Leaker of Trump’s taxes to be sentenced amid criticism of ‘weak’ prosecution

Ashley Oliver · January 29, 2024 10:07 am

Senate Republicans press IRS on noncompliance with federal TikTok ban

David Sivak · January 25, 2024 11:00 am

In this Nov. 18, 2016, photo, the U.S. Capitol dome is seen at sunset on Capitol Hill in Washington.

Cassidy pushes for fix to $600 IRS Venmo reporting rule in child tax credit deal

Zach Halaschak · January 23, 2024 5:33 pm

IRS moves to dismiss most of Hunter Biden’s lawsuit alleging improper tax disclosures

Ashley Oliver · January 16, 2024 5:58 pm

IRS officials cancelled one of the furlough days scheduled as a budget-cutting measure. (AP/Susan Walsh)

What to know about the new IRS tax brackets for 2024 — and who stands to gain

Breanne Deppisch · January 1, 2024 4:30 pm

Top 10 editorials of 2023

Washington Examiner · December 31, 2023 8:15 am

Rudy Giuliani files for bankruptcy less than a week after $148 million defamation ruling

Barnini Chakraborty · December 21, 2023 5:59 pm

Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN).

Minnesota’s Democratic governor trashes Biden administration for taxing rebate checks

Jack Birle · December 8, 2023 9:38 pm

IRS Supervisory Special Agent Gary Shapley, left, and Joseph Ziegler, an IRS agent, arrive to testify on the Hunter Biden investigation during a House Ways and Means Committee hearing, Tuesday, Dec. 5, 2023, on Capitol Hill in Washington.

Hunter Biden indictment is total vindication for whistleblowers

Byron York · December 8, 2023 4:50 pm

Hunter Biden walks with wife Melissa Cohen as they visit shops with President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden in Nantucket, Massachusetts, Nov. 24, 2023.

Biden donor cited political ‘risk’ of Hunter Biden taxes before paying them off

Sarah Bedford · December 7, 2023 10:00 am