irs IRS reminder: if you are a thief or illegal drug dealer, be sure to report those earnings David Pescovitz
stimulus payments Millions of pandemic stimulus payments were deposited in wrong customer accounts due to IRS error, says TurboTax Xeni Jardin
internal revenue service Read ProPublica's excellent work on the IRS's targeting of poor taxpayers Thom Dunn
4th amendment IRS says it bought in to location database for millions of US cellphones to track tax crime suspects Xeni Jardin
currencies IRS erroneously considered Fortnite V-Bucks and Roblox Robux "virtual currencies" subject to taxation David Pescovitz
taxes are for little people The sordid tale of Microsoft's epic tax evasion and the war they waged against the IRS Cory Doctorow
fuck you grover nordquist VICTORY! New Free File rules ban tax-prep firms from hiding their offerings, allow IRS to compete with them (a love-letter to Propublica) Cory Doctorow
death and tax-prep industry lobbyists Suppressed internal emails reveal that the IRS actively helped tax-prep giants suppress Free File Cory Doctorow
free as in expensive Leaks reveal how creepy, cultish monopolist Intuit lobbied Congress and the IRS to kill free tax-filing Cory Doctorow
american oligarchy For the first time ever, taxes on the 400 richest Americans were lower than taxes on everyone else Cory Doctorow
easy pickings IRS admits it audits poor people because auditing rich people is too expensive Cory Doctorow
freefile When Trump's #TaxScam meant that affluent people no longer had to use the paid version of Turbotax, Turbotax started charging poor people, disabled people, students and elderly people Cory Doctorow
base erosion and profit shifting Understanding "transfer pricing": how corporations dodge taxes through financial colonialism Cory Doctorow
1099-oid The weird grift of "sovereign citizens": where UFOlogy meets antisemitism by way of Cliven Bundy and cat-breeding Cory Doctorow
ghost ship From the empty, shutdown IRS, automated processes are sending out property seizure notices, and no human can stop them Cory Doctorow
please sign my baby Being terrible with money set Will Smith on the path to super stardom Séamus Bellamy
