criminals IRS reminder: if you are a thief or illegal drug dealer, be sure to report those earnings David Pescovitz
News Millions of pandemic stimulus payments were deposited in wrong customer accounts due to IRS error, says TurboTax Xeni Jardin
law IRS says it bought in to location database for millions of US cellphones to track tax crime suspects Xeni Jardin
cryptocurrency IRS erroneously considered Fortnite V-Bucks and Roblox Robux "virtual currencies" subject to taxation David Pescovitz
corporatism The sordid tale of Microsoft's epic tax evasion and the war they waged against the IRS Cory Doctorow
Journalism 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
transparency Suppressed internal emails reveal that the IRS actively helped tax-prep giants suppress Free File Cory Doctorow
corruption Leaks reveal how creepy, cultish monopolist Intuit lobbied Congress and the IRS to kill free tax-filing Cory Doctorow
late stage capitalism For the first time ever, taxes on the 400 richest Americans were lower than taxes on everyone else Cory Doctorow
guillotine watch IRS admits it audits poor people because auditing rich people is too expensive Cory Doctorow
guillotine watch 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
Business Understanding "transfer pricing": how corporations dodge taxes through financial colonialism Cory Doctorow
politics Trump hires new lawyer who says not to hand over tax returns as Democrats demand Xeni Jardin
late stage capitalism The weird grift of "sovereign citizens": where UFOlogy meets antisemitism by way of Cliven Bundy and cat-breeding Cory Doctorow
shutdown From the empty, shutdown IRS, automated processes are sending out property seizure notices, and no human can stop them Cory Doctorow
