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TweetShareSharePin0 Shares Stanford study: The IRS audits Black taxpayers at a higher rate than others. It finds Black taxpayers are audited 2.9 to 4.7 times more than non-Black taxpayers, perhaps because of the computer algorithms the IRS uses for audit selection. The largest disparity between the groups was among those claiming the Earned Income Tax

TweetShareSharePin0 Shares Welcome to the latest episode of the Tax Justice Network’s monthly podcast, the Taxcast. You can subscribe either by emailing naomi [at] taxjustice.net or find us on your podcast app. All our podcasts are unique productions in five languages: English, Spanish, Arabic, French, Portuguese. They’re all available here. In this extended special episode of the Taxcast, we look at the ‘Desai Papers’

TweetShareSharePin0 Shares Former President Donald Trump used a records release request in a bid to stall the IRS’s release of his tax documents, a new report finds. The report, from finance giant Bloomberg, indicates that Trump “demanded reams of information from the Internal Revenue Service as it was preparing to turn over his personal tax

TweetShareSharePin0 Shares I am writing to share information about an upcoming Symposium to be held on February 24, 2023 in Washington, D.C. on “The Federal Income Tax: Racially Blind But Not Racially Neutral.”  The symposium is free and open to the public.  There are in-person and Zoom attendance options, with pre-registration here and a flyer with

TweetShareSharePin0 Shares In my last two posts (see here and here) I have tried to put into perspective how a taxpayer is and isn’t constrained by the Tax Court’s lack of “refund” jurisdiction in CDP cases. In my posts I have tried to explain that the Tax Court may (1) functionally determine an “overpayment,” so

TweetShareSharePin0 Shares The news is filled with stories about conflicts between taxpayers and tax collectors. Just a few weeks ago a New York jury convicted the Trump Organization of criminal fraud for a 15-year scheme to help top executives dodge taxes. While that case is a linguistic no-brainer, we often struggle to properly describe those

TweetShareSharePin0 Shares Arizona House Bill 2061 (HB 2061) seeks to amend the state's existing grocery tax regulations. As an Arizona resident, you probabl Source link TweetShareSharePin0 Shares