By Richard Pollock IRS Commissioner John Koskinen referred congressional charges of corrupt Clinton Foundation “pay-to-play” activities to the tax agency’s exempt operations office for investigation, The Daily Caller News Foundation has learned. The request to investigate the Bill, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton Foundation on charges of “public corruption” was made in a July 15 letter by…
The power to tax is the power to destroy. Show me what you tax, and I will tell you what you are going to destroy. Those who advocate taxation often speak of “tax evasion” and of how it is unpatriotic for citizens to do anything within their power to avoid as many taxes as they can. But…
By Casey Harper A new civil asset forfeiture reform bill arrived Thursday in the House, and it could change the game on police seizures. A bipartisan group of Congressmen are calling for the passage of the “Deterring Undue Enforcement by Protecting Rights of Citizens from Excessive Searches and Seizures (DUE PROCESS) Act”. Civil asset forfeiture…
Kathryn Watson House Republicans announced Friday they will begin impeachment hearings for embattled Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Commissioner John Koskinen over his handling of the Lois Lerner scandal. The House Committee on the Judiciary will hold two hearings, starting May 24, to determine whether Koskinen misled Congress and violated a subpoena related to the IRS…
Prince did not leave a will upon his death, which means half of his estate’s worth will be stolen by the government. by Joey Clark In his 2009 song “Colonized Mind,” Prince laments “the blind leading the blind” in a struggle for domination and predation in the name of the law. One line of the…
Tax Forms May Indicate Sanders is More Wealthy Than He Leads On With the current presidential race among millionaires and billionaires like Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, most people find themselves refreshed with more modest contenders like Bernie Sanders. Sanders, a self-described “Democratic Socialist,” has made income inequality the primary issue of his campaign, claiming it…
Juliegrace Brufke If you don’t have a bank account or credit card and still need to pay taxes, local 7-Elevens will now accept cash payments. The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced Wednesday it was introducing the new option allowing individuals to make payments at 7,000 locations in 34 states across the nation. The agency partnered with ACI Worldwide’s…
Even federal government employees go through the motions of paying taxes, but where does the money for paying our public servants’ salaries come from? by Joey Clark I have a confession I must share with you, dear reader. I was contemplating becoming an ordained minister. I’m serious, an ordained minister. And this in spite of my profound…
by Ethan Barton Internal Revenue Service officials don’t consistently report crucial information that ensures data backups are created and usable, a government watchdog reported Monday. The IRS doesn’t know if its data backups are deleted or not created, and doesn’t test to ensure backups can be used if information is lost, even after a “significant”…
Donald Trump has insisted that he cannot release his taxes because he is currently being audited, an occurrence which he says happens to him year after year. But according to IRS Chief John Koskinen, that’s a bunch of bologna. Koskinen, while not legally able to comment on individual cases, did state that successive audits being done…