Pentagon says employees lax on taxes

05-09-2007 • Examiner

The Pentagon's top personnel official has chastised the Defense Dept's civilian work force for having the worst delinquency rate for paying federal income taxes compared with other federal agencies.

IRS wants personal data from Ebay, Amazon users

05-08-2007 • Computer World

The Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT) is sounding an early warning on a proposal in the president's 2008 budget that would require Internet businesses like eBay Inc. and Amazon.com Inc. to collect personal data on their customers and shar

Man accused of running bank without permission

5-1-2007 • AP

A man operated a "warehouse bank" out of his home in the south Seattle suburbs, taking at least $28 million from people around the country who wanted the discretion of a Swiss bank account without going to Switzerland. Robert Arant, of Des

Bush hasn't cut taxes

05-01-2007 • Mises Institute(Mark Brandly)

Bush should not be credited with cutting our tax burdens. He has engaged in tax shifting and in hiding the burdens of his expansions of the welfare and warfare state, and he has demonstrated that he's opposed to lowering our tax burdens.

Private debt collections can fund hundreds of IRS jobs

04-24-2007 • Prnewswire

(just what we really need) The public-private (fascism) partnership between private collection agencies and the IRS is helping to close the estimated $345 billion tax gap and has the potential to fund hundreds of new IRS jobs annually

IRS Commissioner Mark Everson now with Red Cross

4-20-2007 • U.S. Treasury

"Over the past four years Mark Everson has held one of the toughest jobs in the country: Commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service-the nation's tax collector. "In those four years Commissioner Everson has taken up the challenge

Taxpayers elect not to pay for campaigns

4-17-2007 • USA Today

As candidates say no to public money for presidential campaigns, so do American taxpayers. Only 7.3% of 2006 tax returns filed from Jan. 1 to April 14 designated a $3 contribution to the public campaign-financing system, according to data the Interna

Wireless security puts your IRS data at risk

4-17-2007 • AP

Despite efforts to improve wireless security the past 4 years, the Inspector General's assessment of 20 buildings in 10 cities discovered 4 separate locations at which hackers could have easily gained access to IRS computers using wireless techno

Unpaid Taxes Tough to Recover

4-16-2007 • Washington Post

But like millions of American business owners who trade primarily in cash, Huynh was not altogether honest with the Internal Revenue Service. When IRS agents poked around, they discovered four cars in Huynh's name, including a $77,000 Mercedes; r

Old tax back with a vengeance next year

4-13-2007 • Christian Science Monitor

If you think your taxes are bad this year, wait until next April 15. Unless Congress acts relatively soon, millions more Americans will find that the tax refund they expected will disappear – swallowed up by the alternative minimum tax (AMT), a le

Larken Rose debating 861 evidence with Jonathan Siegel, George Washington Univ. Professor

4-9-2007 • Get on Your Soapbox

Most Americans hate to pay federal income taxes, but are most Americans even required by law to pay them? Join Larken Rose, a man who has accused the IRS of being involved in the biggest financial fraud in history as he squares off against Jonathan S

IRS Found Lax in Protecting Taxpayer Data

4-4-2007 • Washington Post

Thousands of taxpayers could be at risk of identity theft or other financial fraud because the Internal Revenue Service has failed to adequately protect information on its 52,000 laptop computers and other storage systems, a new government report con

Larken and Tessa Rose radio interview Saturday 2-4 pm CST

4-4-2007 • Republic Broadcasting

Tessa and I will be his guests for his two-hour debut show this Saturday, 2 to 4 p.m. (Central time). Though Peter is a good friend of mine, so you might consider this opinion somewhat biased, he is about the best talk show host I've ever deal

Tax protester gets 27 months in jail

4-4-2007 • Philadephia Enquirer

"You have been defiant with regard to the law," Judge Padova said. "No one can criticize you for the opinions you hold or your critical comments regarding our tax system . . . but we are a people of law and you clearly violated the law

67,204-page code confounds taxpayers, yet Congress sits by

4-3-2007 • USA Today

The 4 experts chosen to analyze the Baileys' fairly typical circumstances are very real. The fact that they couldn't agree is testament to how impossibly complex the tax code has become. It also illustrates the utter contempt Congress has for

IRS steps up efforts to close 'tax gap'

3-21-2007 • Christian Science Monitor

Underpayment due to cheating or confusion is causing audits to rise, and new rules could be on the way. [Of course over payments are accepted by America's largest terrorist organization.]

I.R.S. Letting Tax Lawyers Write Rules

3-9-2007 • NY Times

The Internal Revenue Service is asking tax lawyers and accountants who create tax shelters and exploit loopholes to take the lead in writing some of its new tax rules. [comfy]

Small moves could trigger IRS audits

3-7-2007 • LA Times

Waving a red flag under the nose of the Internal Revenue Service is not the goal of most small-business owners, yet many do so without knowing it when they fill out their tax returns. [And the largest terrorist group in the US swings into action.]

Unpaid Taxes Equal $2,680 Per Household

3-4-2007 • AP

Think of the uses of $300 billion, the annual gap between what taxpayers owe and what they pay. It would more than cover the federal deficit for a year or the extra money President Bush wants in 2007 and 2008 for Iraq and Afghanistan.

(Flashback) For the IRS, there's no EZ fix

02-21-2007 • CIO Magazine

By assembling a star-studded team of vendors, the IRS thought its $8 billion modernization project would manage itself. The IRS thought wrong. Now the agency's ability to collect revenue, conduct audits and go after tax evaders has been severly

Legislation would crack down on overseas tax havens

2-19-2007 • Bloomberg News

3 Senators have proposed legislation to recover some of the $100 billion a year in tax revenue they say is lost each year to overseas tax havens, in part by requiring hedge funds to report their foreign investors to the Treasury Department.

The Costs of Tax and Spend

02-15-2007 • FEE

(Written in 1993, but right on point) In 1992, Americans worked from Jan 1 to May 5 just to pay their taxes. According to the Tax Foundation, this portion of the calendar year represents the portion of their income Americans, on average, pay in tax

Quest for Fair Trial in Concord, NH - The Ed Brown Story

02-07-2007 •

The impending confrontation between New Hampshire tax-resister Ed Brown and local authorities is reaching a turning point, according to several sources. Coverage of the situation by mainstream media may be fomenting what he terms "a Waco-Style M