Justin Elliott
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That Cardboard Box In Your Home Is Fueling Election Denial
A previously unreported boom in profits for the shipping supply giant Uline has provided the funds for a deeply conservative Midwestern family to bankroll anti-democracy causes around the country. → Read More
That Cardboard Box in Your Home Is Fueling Election Denial
A previously unreported boom in profits for the shipping supply giant Uline has provided the funds for a deeply conservative Midwestern family to bankroll anti-democracy causes around the country. → Read More
Barre Seid’s “Attack Philanthropy”
Leonard Leo’s billionaire benefactor has for years quietly financed efforts to attack climate science and shape the higher education system. → Read More
Inside The Right’s Billion-Dollar Dark Money Transfer
An ultra-secretive businessman gave the largest known donation to a political advocacy group in U.S history to fund the architect of conservatives’ Supreme Court takeover. → Read More
Inflation Reduction Act Will Require The IRS To Study Free Tax Filing Options
This article was originally published at ProPublica, a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. The United States has made a small but significant move… → Read More
The Inflation Reduction Act Will Require the IRS to Study Free Tax Filing Options
TurboTax maker Intuit has long blocked efforts to create free online tax filing for all, but this sweeping domestic policy bill provides $15 million to investigate how the IRS could implement such a program. → Read More
Meet The Billionaire And Rising GOP Mega-Donor Who’s Gaming The Tax System
Susquehanna founder and TikTok investor Jeff Yass has avoided $1 billion in taxes while largely escaping public scrutiny. → Read More
Meet the Billionaire and Rising GOP Mega-Donor Who’s Gaming the Tax System
Susquehanna founder and TikTok investor Jeff Yass has avoided $1 billion in taxes while largely escaping public scrutiny. He’s now pouring his money into campaigns to cut taxes and support election deniers. → Read More
The Great Inheritors: How Three Families Shielded Their Fortunes From Taxes for Generations
In the early 1900s, the wealthiest Americans claimed their fortunes would never last through the generations. A century of tax avoidance later, they have. → Read More
Proposal To Rein In Mega IRAs Faces Lobbying Resistance From Retirement Industry
Several companies, including one backed by Peter Thiel, are fighting a proposal to curb giant retirement accounts and tighten rules for IRA investments. → Read More
More Than Half of America’s 100 Richest People Exploit Special Trusts to Avoid Estate Taxes
This story first appeared at ProPublica. ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories… → Read More
How The Trump Tax Law Created A Loophole That Lets Top Executives Net Millions By Slashing Their Own Salaries
This story first appeared at ProPublica. ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories… → Read More
The Number of People With IRAs Worth $5 Million Or More Has Tripled, Congress Says
This story first appeared at ProPublica. ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories… → Read More
The Billionaire Playbook: How Sports Owners Use Their Teams to Avoid Millions in Taxes
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The Billionaire Playbook: How Sports Owners Use Their Teams to Avoid Millions in Taxes
Owners like Steve Ballmer can take the kinds of deductions on team assets — everything from media deals to player contracts — that industrialists take on factory equipment. That helps them pay lower tax rates than players and even stadium workers. → Read More
Lord of the Roths: How Tech Mogul Peter Thiel Turned a Retirement Account for the Middle Class Into a $5 Billion Tax-Free Piggy Bank
Roth IRAs were intended to help average working Americans save, but IRS records show Thiel and other ultrawealthy investors have used them to amass vast untaxed fortunes. → Read More
Sheryl Sandberg and Top Facebook Execs Silenced an Enemy of Turkey to Prevent a Hit to the Company’s Business
Amid a 2018 Turkish military campaign, Facebook ultimately sided with Turkey’s demand to block the page of a mostly Kurdish militia. “I am fine with this,” Sandberg wrote. → Read More
Georgia Senator David Perdue Privately Pushed for a Tax Break for Rich Sports Teamowners —
It’s unclear why Senator Perdue was interested in tax regulation that would impact only a tiny set of the richest Americans. The effort, which wasn’t successful, could have helped several of his donors, including fellow senator Kelly Loeffler. → Read More
Susan Collins Backed Down From a Fight with Private Equity. Now They’re Underwriting Her Reelection. —
The Maine Republican senator has become the No. 1 Senate recipient of private equity donations. → Read More
The Justice Department May Have Violated Attorney General Barr’s Own Policy Memo
In a memo from May, the attorney general reminded Justice Dept. prosecutors to avoid partisan politics. Then a U.S. attorney in Pennsylvania announced an election investigation that had partisan overtones. → Read More