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12/03/2017 / By News Editors

The government is coming for your Bitcoin

The same day Bitcoin cracked its all-time high above $11,000, the government dealt its first blow to the crypto world… On Wednesday, a federal judge in San Francisco ordered the popular Bitcoin exchange, Coinbase, to provide the IRS with information on over 14,000 account holders. (Article by Simon Black republished from SovereignMan.com) The taxman noticed that […]

11/04/2017 / By News Editors

Fact check: No, new IG report doesn’t prove IRS targeting scandal was a right-wing ‘myth’

News arrived last week that the US Department of Justice had reached a settlement with more than three dozen Tea Party and conservative groups improperly targeted by the Internal Revenue Service during the Obama administration. As part of the agreement, the IRS offered a “sincere apology” for its abuses, harkening back to the era in which “IRS officials for […]

06/29/2017 / By Ethan Huff

Ron Paul: Abolish the IRS

Every year when it comes time for Americans to pay their federal income taxes, most don’t even bat an eye. That’s because almost nobody alive today remembers a time when federal income taxes didn’t exist. But believe it or not, Americans kept their entire paychecks prior to 1913 (the year the Federal Reserve was born), […]

04/18/2017 / By News Editors

IRS taxcollectors hire private debt collection agencies to HUNT DOWN and collect taxes from Americans

You won’t just be receiving a call from the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) moving forward, but also from debt collectors. The tax collection agency has contracted out the task of pursuing unpaid taxes. (Article by Andrew Moran from blacklistednews.com) The IRS announced earlier this month that it has hired four debt collection agencies to get their […]

03/09/2017 / By JD Heyes

Republicans want to know why Trump hasn’t asked discredited IRS chief Koskinen to step aside

It isn’t as though President Donald J. Trump hasn’t had a lot on his plate since taking office, but a growing number of Republicans are asking what is actually a fairly obviously question: Why hasn’t the new president sacked one of the worst IRS commissioners in the history of the agency, John Koskinen? During his […]

01/30/2017 / By JD Heyes

50 members of the Republican Study Committee implore Trump: “Fire the IRS chief”

A few years ago, John Koskinen, head of the Internal Revenue Service when it was being weaponized by the Obama White House to target conservative organizations seeking tax-exempt status ahead of the 2012 election, repeatedly gave false and incomplete testimony to a series of congressional committees trying to get to the bottom of the scandal. […]

01/23/2017 / By Natural News Editors

Soda tax increases shock consumers… you mean it makes soda cost MORE now?

I don’t like tax increases, but I like having additional evidence that higher tax rates change behavior. So when my leftist friends “win” by imposing tax hikes, I try to make lemonade out of lemons by pointing out “supply-side” effects. (Article by Dan Mitchell’s from fee.org) Such as the big drop in soda purchases after a […]

09/06/2016 / By usafeaturesmedia

Epic fail: IRS has failed to notify taxpayers their identity has been stolen

(BigGovernment.news) Here’s hoping the next Congress and president whittle the IRS down to a shell of its current size so that the agency will no longer have the power to abuse the taxpayers it is supposed to serve. Or, at a minimum, let’s hope the next president cleans house and replaces the current inept leadership […]

07/01/2016 / By usafeaturesmedia

A politically weaponized IRS needs to focus more on preventing identity thieves from stealing billions: GAO

(BigGovernment.news) Tens of millions of Americans have witnessed the political weaponization of the Internal Revenue Service under the Obama administration, first as health care enforcer under Obamacare provisions and then as a political weapon wielded against conservative and Tea Party groups in the run-up to the 2012 election. Maybe if the agency would focus more on actually […]

06/02/2016 / By usafeaturesmedia

The IRS has STOLEN millions from Americans under ‘structuring’ law without evidence

(BigGovernment.news) The IRS has seized $43 million from more than 600 individuals by accusing them of violating “structuring” laws even when there has been no evidence of criminal wrongdoing, according to testimony heard at the House Ways and Means Committee today. In 2012, two armed IRS agents went to the farm of Randy Sowers, a dairy farmer for […]

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