IRS Chief Koskinen: Agency encourages illegal immigrant theft of SSNs to file tax returns

By RUDY TAKALA (@RUDYTAKALA) • 4/12/16 1:17 PM The IRS is struggling to ensure that illegal immigrants are able to illegally use Social Security numbers for legitimate purposes, the agency’s head told senators on Tuesday, without allowing the numbers to be used for “bad” reasons. IRS Commissioner John Koskinen made the statement in response to […]

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Congress inks pact on permanent Internet access tax ban

WASHINGTON (AP) — House and Senate negotiators announced Wednesday that they have reached agreement on bipartisan legislation to make permanent a moratorium that prevents states from taxing access to the Internet. The moratorium was first enacted in 1998. State and local governments that already had Internet taxes were allowed to keep them under the current […]

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Insanity! CA Gov Brown Wants to Raise Gas Tax to Pay for Cougar Bridge Over Fwy

Taxpayer Funded LA Cougar Bridge California’s highway system is crumbling with a backlog of more than $59 billion in maintenance costs. To fund this, Governor Brown has proposed a 12-cent increase in the state’s gas tax and a $65 annual highway user fee. There’s no question the state needs to budget more money to maintain […]

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Club for Growth: Trump wants ‘federal control over U.S. businesses’

By GABBY MORRONGIELLO • 8/26/15 4:50 PM Leaders of the fiscally conservative Club for Growth PAC have accused Donald Trump of pandering to tax-and-spend liberals after promising to levy a tax on Ford vehicles imported from Mexico. Club for Growth President David McIntosh said in a press release Wednesday that the billionaire’s “threat to impose new […]

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