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  • Levin Says Tax Changes Should Focus on Unjustified Breaks

    Updated 52 minutes ago

    Democratic Senator Carl Levin said an overhaul of the U.S. tax code would be difficult to accomplish and instead lawmakers should focus on curbing “unjustified” tax breaks.

  • White House Feeds IRS Frenzy by Revising Accounts

    Updated 48 minutes ago

    The almost daily disclosures by the White House about who knew about an IRS investigation before it became public has helped stoke the furor over the agency’s scrutiny of tax-exempt groups and given the president’s harshest critics an opening.

  • Cook Defending Apple Puts Loophole-Closing Back on Agenda

    A congressional hearing into Apple Inc.’s use of offshore tax shelters called attention to how U.S. companies lower their taxes, and underscored the difficulty Congress confronts when trying to end the practice.

  • Apple’s Taxes Expose the Rotten U.S. Code

    Updated 2 hours, 38 minutes ago

    When Apple Inc.’s chief executive officer, Tim Cook, bragged to a U.S. Senate subcommittee this week about his company’s culture of innovation, he probably hoped people would think of Apple’s gadgets, not its tax strategies.

  • Republicans Unsatisfied by IRS Answers Press for More

    House lawmakers say ousted Internal Revenue Service chief Steven Miller failed to fully explain why he didn’t inform them for more than a year that small-government groups seeking tax-exempt status were subject to extra scrutiny.

  • Lew Says He Learned IRS Inquiry Details Last Week (Transcript)

    Treasury Secretary Jacob J. Lew said in an interview with Bloomberg Television’s “Political Capital with Al Hunt,” airing this weekend, that he was briefed in March on an investigation of selective IRS screening of nonprofit groups though he didn’t learn details of the findings until last week.

  • Europe’s Welfare States Can Teach U.S. How to Be Pro-Market

    Modern fiscal conservatism has wrapped itself in one whopper of a false choice: That the U.S. must decide between economic growth and the welfare state.

  • IRS Scandal Bolsters Code Revision, Top Tax Writers Say

    The scandal at the Internal Revenue Service reinforces the case for revising the U.S. tax code, Congress’s top tax writers said in an interview with Bloomberg Television.

  • Ousted Acting IRS Head Faces Lawmaker Grilling in Scandal

    Steven Miller, forced out as acting Internal Revenue Service commissioner, will be questioned today by U.S. lawmakers on what he knew about scrutiny of small- government groups and why Congress wasn’t told.

  • Obama Said to Choose Acting IRS Chief as Hearings Start

    President Barack Obama plans to choose a new acting commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service this week as the first congressional hearings begin into the agency’s selective scrutiny of small-government groups, according to an administration official.

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