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#DOGE Is Building a Master Database to Surveil and Track #immigrants
DOGE is knitting together data from the Department of Homeland Security, Social Security Administration, and IRS that could create a #surveillance tool of unprecedented scope.
#dhs #ssa #irs #privacy #security
“The acting commissioner of the #IRS is being replaced after Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent complained to President Trump that the latest leader of the agency had been installed without his knowledge and at the behest of billionaire Elon #Musk…”
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Head of I.R.S. Being Ousted Amid Treasury’s Power Struggle With Elon Musk
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent complained to President Trump that the acting commissioner had been installed without his knowledge.Jonathan Swan (The New York Times)
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.
(Published 2019)
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Inside TurboTax’s 20-Year Fight to Stop Americans From Filing Their Taxes for Free
Using lobbying, the revolving door and “dark pattern” customer tricks, Intuit fended off the government’s attempts to make tax filing free and easy, and created its multi-billion-dollar franchise.ProPublica
#IRS Is Actually Said to Be Considering Whether to Revoke #Harvard’s #TaxExempt Status — Cuz #USA Is An #Autocracy Now
The move would be a major violation of the law upon orders from the #Trump admin as it attempts to choke off federal money & support for #research & #academia in US #universities.
[Jiminy Cricket am I editorializing & cursing in print more & more now that muther f⁕⚠︎er is in office!]
#law #AntiIntellectualism #RevengePolitics #extortion #MafiaState
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I.R.S. Said to Be Considering Whether to Revoke Harvard’s Tax-Exempt Status
The move would be a major escalation of the Trump administration’s attempts to choke off federal money and support for the leading research university.Andrew Duehren (The New York Times)
Andrew De Mello, the IRS’s acting chief counsel, received the request Wed from ofcls in the #Treasury Dept… The Trump admin has displaced numerous IRS leaders to empower political allies… Trump on Tues [YESTERDAY] appointed Gary Shapley the agency’s acting commissioner….
#TaxExempt status is available to charitable, religious & #educational orgs, as well as social welfare groups. But the organizations must strictly adhere to tax laws that prohibit them from engaging in certain political activity. There is NO proof that #Harvard violated any of those guardrails.
“The #IRS is supposed to administer the tax rules impartially, not pursue political #vendettas against exempt organizations,”said Steve Rosenthal, who served as snr fellow at the #TaxPolicy Center.
#law
100% ILLEGAL
WHAT COUNTRY IS THIS?!?!?
#Trump administration asks #IRS to revoke #Harvard’s #TaxExempt status
The directive to the IRS is a significant escalation of Trump’s feud with #HarvardUniversity & other Ivy League institutions & other #nonprofit groups his admin views as “woke.”
#law #AcademicFreedom #Constitution #FirstAmendment #FreeSpeech #AbuseOfPower #ExecutivePower #Autocracy #Tyranny #AntiIntellectualism #censorship #Dictatorship
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correct me if am wrong: technically there are no #tariffs collectors at ports of entry. there’s only people who fill out some paperwork taking numbers declared at face value. then you, as the importer pay some minimum to get the goods "off the dock"; but it’s the #IRS that figures out how much on tariffs importers end up paying, based on sales reported to them, right?
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which is why i’ve always assumed rich people with private yatchs/docks & planes/airports are smugglers 🧐
inquiline (@inquiline@assemblag.es)
"Interpretations of the multiple executive orders, social media posts, and customs alerts have some U.S. companies and industry groups trying to figure out when the new tariffs will be deployed....Assemblag.es
JHC
" #IRS plans to eliminate nearly a quarter of its workforce in layoffs starting Fri shedding roughly 20,000 jobs as part of plans from #Trump & #Musk’s DOGE.
The agency began Friday by announcing it would eliminate its Office of Civil Rights and Compliance, firing roughly 130 employees from a division responsible for protecting taxpayers from discrimination in the tax code, audits and investigations"
So I guess the winning has started? Yes?
IRS Predicts DOGE Lost Half a Trillion Dollars for the USA
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#IRS #Taxes #Revenue #EndTrump #EndMusk #DonaldKrasnov #RepublicansOwnThis #GOPKakistocracy #GOPWeirdos #NoRepublicansEverAgain #USPol
IRS Predicts DOGE Lost Half a Trillion Dollars for the USA
The Post reports today that the IRS’s internal projections estimate that the DOGE-driven disruptions to the IRS since the inauguration are on track to have…Josh Marshall (TPM - Talking Points Memo)
