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Negotiators are nearing a bipartisan deal in time for many voters to receive the benefits during the current election year.
January 11 -
A group of Senate Democrats and independents introduced legislation Thursday to eliminate loopholes and tax breaks for billionaires.
November 30 -
Close to a thousand taxpayers who earn over $1 million a year failed to file tax returns over multiple recent years, potentially owing $34 billion in taxes, according to IRS data.
September 28 -
The Senate Finance Committee is questioning whether the sum from Leon Black amounted to gifts for which the private equity leader owes taxes.
July 25 -
A pair of senators are reintroducing bipartisan legislation to eliminate gender-specific spousal references in the Tax Code and protect LGBTQ+ Americans from discrimination.
June 28 -
Commissioner Werfel is promising to fix the method of selecting taxpayers for examinations that seems to lead to more Black taxpayers being audited.
May 15 -
The Finance Committee found that the TCJA enabled some of the biggest to lower their tax bills by shifting profits abroad.
May 12 -
Texas billionaire Harlan Crow declined to detail the extent and tax treatment of luxury gifts he provided to Clarence Thomas.
May 10 -
The Swiss bank continues to help rich Americans hide assets from the IRS nearly a decade after a unit pleaded guilty to tax-evasion conspiracy, the Senate Finance Committee said.
March 29 -
The committee approved the nomination of Daniel Werfel as the next head of the service by a 17-9 vote.
March 2 -
Sen. Elizabeth Warren and Ron Wyden want the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board to do more to regulate audits of cryptocurrency companies in the wake of recent high-profile bankruptcies.
January 27 -
Senate Democrats plan their own political counter-programming to House Republicans' threats of wide-ranging probes, taking on issues like corporate tax avoidance and union-busting.
January 25 -
The desire to use free cash to buy back shares appears to be stronger than any deterrent created by the tax.
October 3 -
Rich Americans are hiding "vast amounts of income" from the Internal Revenue Service by exploiting a "deeply troubling" loophole in FATCA, according to a Senate report.
August 24 -
Private placement life insurance, or PPLI, is a decades-old strategy that has been gaining popularity among the super-wealthy as a way to protect their fortunes from income and estate taxes.
August 15 -
A top Democrat pushing for a new minimum tax on companies invoked fresh data showing more than 100 profitable U.S. corporations paying an average tax rate of just 1.1% as a showcase for the initiative.
August 5 -
About half of a new alternative corporate income tax would be paid by companies that self-identify as manufacturers.
August 2 -
While Charles Rettig is scheduled to testify to Congress’s main tax-writing committees, IRS officials offered potential justifications for the unusual audits.
July 13 -
Oil companies that record a profit margin better than 10% would face a proposed new federal surtax, as Democrats struggle to curb U.S. energy costs and broader inflation.
June 15 -
Sen. Ron Wyden asked for more information about the firm's disclaimer that a decade’s worth of financial statements should no longer be considered reliable.
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