Tag: IRS

The rule would limit businesses' ability to shift taxable income out of the U.S. through the strategic issuance of debt. (AP Photo/J. David Ake, File)

Trump Treasury to review Obama tax rule meant to stop corporate inversions

Joseph Lawler · July 7, 2017 10:17 pm

The legislation would provide $11.1 billion for the tax collection agency, holding it below the funding it had a decade ago. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

House bill would cut IRS spending by $149 million

Joseph Lawler · June 28, 2017 7:48 pm

All across the country, people are fed up with the bloated bureaucracy of the IRS. (iStock by Getty Images)

Beltway Confidential

Congress needs to take axes to taxes

Adam Brandon, Alfredo Ortiz · June 28, 2017 3:11 pm

Internal Revenue Service Commissioner John Koskinen has stayed on under President Trump despite GOP calls for his removal. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Washington Secrets

Obama era-bureaucrats ‘waiting Trump out,’ block IRS, Fast and Furious probes

Paul Bedard · June 16, 2017 1:40 pm

President Trump has said that he canât release the returns because he is under audit, but the Internal Revenue Service has said that does not preclude someone from releasing returns. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Trump filed extension on 2016 tax return: Reports

Robert King · June 3, 2017 9:02 pm

Johnson, who chairs the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, said the IRS is making overpayments to illegal immigrants who apply for the Additional Child Tax Credit, the refundable part of the child tax credit. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

Ron Johnson demands IRS review of illegal immigrant tax credits

Al Weaver · June 1, 2017 4:00 pm

"If we don't get these additional sanctions at the UN, as I mentioned over the weekend, I have an executive order prepared, that's ready to go to the president that will authorize to stop doing trade and put sanctions on anybody that does trade with North Korea," Mnuchin said Wednesday to reporters. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Watchdog says IRS needs more money than Trump proposes

Joseph Lawler · May 23, 2017 9:47 pm

Two IRS employees (one current, one former) at the center of the scandal are trying to keep still more information about potential government wrongdoing out of the public sphere. (AP Photo/J. David Ake, File)

Beltway Confidential

IRS officials are really good at protecting their own privacy

David Freddoso · May 15, 2017 5:47 pm

President Trump speaks in the Rose Garden before signing an executive order aimed at easing an IRS rule limiting political activity for churches. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Trump signs executive order targeting religious discrimination

Sarah Bedford · May 4, 2017 4:00 pm

Authentic churches and charities would be forced to compete for charitable donations, critics of a move to repeal a 1954 law say. (AP Photo/J.D. Pooley)

Report: Trump eyes order allowing more church politicking

Joseph Lawler · May 3, 2017 9:04 pm

While the IRS has acknowledged that the earned income tax credit is a high risk, it "still does not provide a valid assessment" of the rate of improper payments for other refundable credits, Inspector General J. Russell George said. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

25 percent of IRS payments for several major tax credits are wrong, IG says

Joseph Lawler · May 2, 2017 8:38 pm

Here's a look at the agencies that would see increases and decreases under the bill, compared to 2016 funding levels. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

Who’s up, who’s down in the GOP’s spending plan

Pete Kasperowicz · May 1, 2017 4:07 pm