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Senator Carl Levin was the Senate's exemplary investigator of corporate tax scams. → Read More
Weakening tax enforcement combined with new complexity invites evasion and massive illicit tax savings for the rich. → Read More
Nov. 8, 2017 – Imagine if you, like President-elect Donald Trump, didn’t have to pay a nickel to support the government he’s now preparing to lead. Trump, who has refused (unlike every other presidential candidate in recent history) to release his tax returns, made his last known payment to the IRS in 1977. In fact, thanks to a tax trick quietly deployed by a bunch of rich Americans a… → Read More
March 14, 2017 – In 2005, Donald J. Trump married model Melanija Knavs, his third wife. That year, the real-estate mogul and newly minted TV star earned $153 million dollars, about $3 million a week. That’s far more than all but a tiny sliver of the U.S. population. The newlyweds paid $36.6 million of that year’s take in federal income taxes, a rate of 24%, putting the Trumps in much the same… → Read More
Some tips for Americans who would like to follow the president-elect’s example. → Read More
Some tax tips for Americans who would like to follow Donald Trump's example. → Read More
Investigative reporter David Cay Johnston on how legislation can work without even passing. → Read More
Finally, a spending blueprint that hints at the hope and change promised. → Read More
The latest pitch for an estate-tax repeal repeats a long-discredited lie → Read More
Americans continue to lose money while corporate profits soar → Read More
Falling prices at the pump belie a larger, later bill → Read More
Tell the Government Accounting Standards Board you want full disclosure on tax subsidies for corporations → Read More
A small group of very well-paid workers is earning a third of the nation’s wages. Why? → Read More
Despite obscene profits from monopoly power, government officials ignore evidence and squash challenges → Read More
Lowell Bergman argues that journalism is under attack from government and corporate power. He’s right → Read More
County-level BLS data tell the true story about job growth → Read More
Congress and government regulators need to step in → Read More
It turns out, we can and California has a system worth emulating. → Read More
Six years after Great Recession, majority of Americans stagnating → Read More
By refusing to raise minimum wage, we exact a terrible toll on low-income workers and their children → Read More