GOP Led States Attempting to Use Covid Relief Funds to Provide Tax Cuts for the Rich
Republican leaders in nearly two dozen U.S. states are attempting—potentially in violation of federal law—to use coronavirus relief funds approved...
Republican leaders in nearly two dozen U.S. states are attempting—potentially in violation of federal law—to use coronavirus relief funds approved...
Last June, drawing on the largest trove of confidential American tax data that’s ever been obtained, ProPublica launched a series...
Sen. Bernie Sanders on Thursday slammed oil companies for raking in huge profits on the backs of U.S. consumers and...
A global index published Tuesday ranks the United States as the world’s leading perpetrator of financial secrecy, citing the country’s...
Nikki Spretnak loved being an IRS agent. Being able to examine the books of different businesses gave her an intimate...
On Monday, the White House unveiled President Joe Biden’s 2023 budget proposal, which includes a minimum tax on the nation’s...
Congressional Democrats on Thursday introduced the bicameral Big Oil Windfall Profits Tax to target price gouging by profit-gorging fossil fuel companies...
Senator Elizabeth Warren responds to Elon Musk calling her ‘Senator Karen’ on Twitter in response to her call for him...
A group of wealthy investors and business leaders who support progressive taxation launched a campaign Tuesday aimed at pushing Sen....
As the bombshell Pandora Papers continue to expose dubious details about how the world’s superrich hide their fortunes and avoid...
Corporations threatened by the prospect of paying a slightly higher tax rate and exercising a little less power over working people...
A Treasury Department report released Wednesday estimates that the richest 1% of Americans are responsible for more than $160 billion...
Right now, Democrats are working to pass a $3.5 trillion package that will provide long overdue help for working Americans....
While the United States’ west coast was battling wildfires on September 1, the Northeastern Corridor suffered tornadoes, torrential rainfall and...
In a letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Majority Leader Steny Hoyer this week, 54 members of Congress called for...
The collective wealth of the top billionaires in the U.S. has increased by nearly two-thirds during the pandemic, not only...
In November 2017, with the administration of President Donald Trump rushing to get a massive tax overhaul through Congress, Sen....
A new analysis by the government watchdog group Accountable.US finds that two-thirds of GOP senators—and more than 40% of House...
After many months of anticipation and nearly three years of investigation, the Manhattan district attorney’s office has charged the Trump...
Abigail Disney has a lot to criticize about American billionaires — especially when they inherit a pile of cash and...
ProPublica scored a fantastic scoop when it obtained and meticulously analyzed 15 years of raw income tax data on the...
In 2007, Jeff Bezos, then a multibillionaire and now the world’s richest man, did not pay a penny in federal...
In what is a ridiculously long overdue proposal, President Joe Biden is advocating doubling the size of the IRS, adding tens...
Sen. Bernie Sanders on Wednesday presided over a Senate Budget Committee hearing convened to examine waste and fraud at the...
President Joe Biden has been highly critical of the corporate tax cuts of the Trump era, complaining that the Tax...
Following IRS Commissioner Charles Rettig’s admission Tuesday that tax dodgers are depriving the federal government of as much as $1...
Sen. Bernie Sanders and Rep. Ilhan Omar introduced legislation Thursday that would eliminate dozens of tax loopholes, subsidies, and other...
Income and wealth are now more concentrated at the top than at any time over the last 80 years, and...
The top 1% of the highest-earning American households are hiding 21% of their income from the Internal Revenue Service, costing...
“Zoom saw its profits increase 4,000% last year,” former Labor Secretary Robert Reich noted. “But, wait for it, paid no...
President Biden cut child poverty in half with the American Rescue Plan, and he is following it up by making...
With the possibility of getting a more straightforward $15 federal minimum wage increase passed under the reconciliation process as part...
Donald Trump’s taxes were officially handed over to the Manhattan D.A.’s office on Monday, just hours after the Supreme Court...
Congressman Ro Khanna on Thursday unveiled legislation to help the Internal Revenue Service “put an end to runaway tax evasion...
Nearly one year after suspending a presidential campaign that she built on the idea of a national wealth tax, Sen....
The Biden-Harris plan for COVID-19 relief contains a lot of good stuff tucked into it, like this: a child tax...
Lawmakers in Argentina on Friday approved a new one-time levy on the country’s richest citizens to raise money to address...
A compelling majority of Americans favor raising taxes on people who make more than $400,000 per year, according to a...
Sen. Bernie Sanders on Wednesday blasted Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell for pushing a coronavirus relief measure that contains a...
When the late New York City real estate magnate Leona Helmsley infamously said “only the little people pay taxes,” she spoke the...
The fate of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), known as Obamacare, lies with the Supreme Court: The nation’s highest court will...
In 2011, The New York Times published what was, at the time, the most shocking expose on tax policy in...
The $750 in federal income taxes that Donald Trump paid in 2016 and 2017 is an attention-grabbing number—in large part...
Days after the payroll processor for the federal government—one of the nation’s largest employers—announced it would implement President Donald Trump’s plan...
Sen. Bernie Sanders was among critics outraged that the fossil fuel industry is using tax breaks in the CARES Act...