This week, the Wall Street Journal opinion section published an op-ed about our #tax coverage.
We don't typically comment on our newsgathering process, but this opinion essay has factual errors in the headline and in the essay that should be corrected.
We've submitted this to their editors:
Here’s what Republicans want to do: cutting your Medicaid and SNAP to fund tax cuts for the ultra rich and the oligarchs.
The #US #trade court on Thurs ruled against #Trump's latest 10% global #tariffs, finding across-the-board tariffs were not justified under a 1970s trade #law.
The US Court of International Trade [#CIT] ruled in favor of #SmallBusinesses that challenged the tariffs, which took effect on February 24. The ruling was 2-1, with one judge saying it was premature to grant victory to the small business plaintiffs.
#economy #inflation #tax #consumers #business #recession
https://www.reuters.com/world/us-trade-court-rules-against-trumps-10-global-tariff-2026-05-07/?utm_source=braze&utm_medium=notifications&utm_campaign=2025_engagement
Rep #EricSwalwell (D-CA), one of Trump’s most vocal critics in the #House, said Thurs that he was being targeted by the #Trump admin after news reports that he had been referred to the #DON for a potential #criminal investigation.
An accusation that Swalwell had committed #mortgage & #tax #fraud was made on Wednesday by #BillPulte, director of the #FHFA. Pulte, a Trump crony, has made similar allegations against Trump’s other perceived enemies.
#law #RevengePolitics
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/14/us/politics/trump-mortgage-fraud-eric-swalwell.html?smid=url-share
Wealthy Ranchers Profit From Public Lands. Taxpayers Pick Up the Tab.
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A ProPublica and High Country News investigation found that government programs supporting grazing on public lands prop up a wealthy few while harming the environment. The Trump administration is supercharging the system.
https://www.propublica.org/article/grazing-ranchers-public-lands-trump?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Government #Trump #Environment #Grazing #PublicLands #Tax
Trump Vowed to Clean Up Washington, Then His Team Hired a Man Who Pushed a Scam the IRS Called the “Worst of the Worst”
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Frank Schuler was a leading promoter of a tax deduction derided as a scam by prosecutors, senators and the IRS. Now he’s a senior adviser to the General Services Administration, which manages the federal government’s property.
This has to be a #DOGE Easter Egg.
#IRS “improperly” [accidentally-on-purpose] disclosed #confidential #immigrant tax data to #DHS
The #tax agency only recently discovered the “mistake” & is working with other federal agencies on a response.
#law #privacy #immigration #InfoSec #Trump
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2026/02/11/immigrants-irs-dhs-tax-data/
With Trump reportedly planning to end the IRS Direct File program, there's no better time to remember how TurboTax owner Intuit spent two decades fighting to prevent Americans from filing their taxes online for free.
#Trump threatens 50% #tariffs on #EU & 25% penalties on #Apple as his #TradeWar intensifies
Trump on Fri threatened a 50% #tax on all imports from the #EuropeanUnion & a 25% tariff on Apple products unless #iPhones are made in US.
The threats, delivered on social media, reflect his ability to disrupt the #GlobalEconomy with an outburst of typing, & the reality that his tariffs have yet to produce the deals he is seeking or the return of domestic manufacturing.
#economy
https://apnews.com/article/trump-tariff-apple-iphone-tax-170021e8fad22878d0183b5d48971087
A sweeping #tax & spending #bill passed by #House #Republicans would devote an estimated $150B to #immigration enforcement, an unprecedented sum that seeks to deliver #Trump’s goal of mass #deportations & lock down the US Mexico border.
The bill would provide funding for 10k new immigration enforcement officers & $46.5B for a *wall* along the border while placing new *fees* on applications for #asylum & other #humanitarian protections.
#law
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/republicans-seek-cement-trumps-immigration-legacy-sweeping-bill-2025-05-29/
The IRS Is Building a Vast System to Share Millions of Taxpayers’ Data With ICE
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ProPublica has obtained the blueprint for the Trump administration’s unprecedented plan to turn over IRS records to Homeland Security in order to speed up the agency’s mass deportation efforts.
#News #Data #Privacy #ICE #Deportation #Immigration #IRS #Tax #Trump
Mark Carney’s decision to rescind Canada’s digital services tax is a cowardly move that shows Trump he can be pressured into making trade concessions.
It also shows how much Carney is willing to give into corporate demands, and particular those of the tech industry.
https://www.disconnect.blog/p/mark-carney-caves-to-trump-and-the
#tech #canada #dst #digitalservicestax #donaldtrump #canada #tax
Umm… say what now???
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The agreement the #DOJ made with #Trump to settle his lawsuit against the #IRS includes a provision BARRING the agency from pursuing #tax claims against Trump, his family or his businesses. The new provision was released a day after DOJ agreed to settle Trump’s lawsuit by creating a $1.8 billion compensation fund for people *he believes* were wronged by federal investigations or prosecutions.
Abuser, predator Leon Black was among #Epstein’s primary sources of income. Their relationship went back to the 1990s, but Black flooded #Epstein with cash in the years #Epstein was a registered sex offender.
Black paid #Epstein $170 million over just a few years in the 2010s. He’s claimed the payments were for #tax advice, which doesn’t hold up at all.
Black already employed the best tax and estate planning advisors in the country. He didn’t need #Epstein’s advice, and he certainly didn’t have any reason to pay #Epstein $170 Million dollars
#epsteinFiles #EpsteinTrumpCoverUp #EpsteinClass #news #usa #congress
We now have a transaction that is corrupt self-dealing simply unheard of in United States history:
Nonilex -- @Nonilex
"This is a FOREVER thing!
As part of the #settlement agreement, the #US is “forever barred & precluded” from examining or prosecuting #Trump, his sons & the #TrumpOrganization’s current #tax issues, according to the one-page document posted to the #DOJ’s website on Tuesday.
"...the US is “forever barred & precluded” from examining or prosecuting Trump, his sons & the TrumpOrganization’s current #tax issues..."
"forever barred"
This is not "get out of jail free"
It's nothing less than "continue your corruption for as much as you can steal, for as long as you can continue stealing it"
Is there simply no way to control, to rein-in such obvious Trump Family corruption?
#Law #Criminal #Fraud #DOJ #JudicialProcess #Theft #TaxpayersMoney #kleptocracy #MafiaState #MAGASlushFund #SlushFund
#ToddBlanche’s announcement that he plans to kill the anti-weaponization #SlushFund but keep in place a deal that shields #Trump from past #tax #liability [#fraud] is likely to break the #Senate impasse over passage of an #immigration bill.
But the tax agreement—which could save Trump >$100 million, per a NYT analysis—could be highly damaging for #Republicans forced to defend that they supported a deal that enriches a billionaire with #TaxpayersMoney.
#law #DOJ
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/19/us/politics/trump-settlement-irs.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
#Trump Keeps #Immunity From #IRS, a Victory in a Long Feud
Even as they rebelled against a $1.8B #SlushFund for Trump’s allies, #Republicans looked the other way as his admin granted him lucrative #tax protections.
#Senate Republican anger about Trump’s $1.8B fund for people who claim to be victims of federal overreach was loud & apparent.
…Not so for sweeping protections from IRS audits that #ToddBlanche also ordered up for Trump, his family & his businesses.
#law
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/05/us/politics/trump-immunity-tax-audit.html?unlocked_article_code=1.n1A.gcSQ.hiZiiEEk4rpF&smid=nytcore-ios-share
Fantastic
US judge voids Trump's settlement with IRS
A US judge on Monday voided #Trump's [totally illegal] #settlement with the #IRS that gave him & his companies sweeping #tax protections & initially set up a nearly $1.8 billion government #SlushFund to pay victims of so-called government weaponization.
#law #judiciary #criminal #fraud #DOJ #JudicialProcess #theft #TaxpayersMoney #kleptocracy #MafiaState #Jan6 #militia #MAGASlushFund
https://www.reuters.com/world/us-judge-voids-trumps-settlement-with-irs-2026-07-13/?utm_source=braze&utm_medium=notifications&utm_campaign=2025_engagement
The Roots of All Evil 😁
#RonaldReagan #MargaretThatcher #Meeting #Of #Evil #Tax #TaxTheRich #TaxBillionaires #Society #And #NeoLiberalism
