An internal IRS report says that 94% of Direct File users rated their experience as "excellent" or "above average".
(And as the article mentions, even though it's been shut down, it is open-source! https://github.com/IRS-Public/direct-file)
The #Wisconsin case, #Catholic Charities Bureau v. Wisconsin #Labor & Industry Review Commission, No. 24-154, concerned a state #law that exempts #religious groups from state #unemployment #taxes so long as they are “operated primarily for religious purposes.”
IRS ‘Direct File’ software, developed by tax professionals in the government with tax payer dollars only to be scrapped by the #TrumpAdministration, is now Open Source. This software was developed to make YOUR life easier and filing federal taxes less of a pain, so naturally the #Republicans had to take it away from you. Let’s face it, they are destroying all good things. #finance #Tax #taxes #IRS #RepublicansDidThis
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Taxes de 50 % sur l'acier et l'aluminium : escalade dans la guerre commerciale ou nouveau bluff ?: Ce mercredi est entrée en vigueur une nouvelle hausse des droits de douane des États-Unis sur les importations d'acier et d'aluminium, de 25 % à 50 %. Une hausse considérable, qui, si elle se pérennise, provoquera de graves secousses dans un secteur déjà sous tension. Mais ce choix pourrait être un… https://www.revolutionpermanente.fr/Taxes-de-50-sur-l-acier-et-l-aluminium-escalade-dans-la-guerre-commerciale-ou-nouveau-bluff?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon RP #Taxes #Acier #Aluminium #GuerreCommerciale #Trump
#politics #california #highspeedrail #trump #enviroment #taxes #transporation
Frank King
FUN FACT: Californians pay more in Federal taxes than the Federal government spends in California.
The IRS open-sourced Direct File. I don't know how useful this is yet, but good to see anyways.
The gloves are off! TACO man and Leon can scratch each others eyes out. What I hate about the story is that I agree with Musk.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/musk-attacks-trumps-funding-bill-175219354.html
#Trump #Musk #Deficit #Taxes
“If enacted, this would render America all-but-uninvestable for many foreigners."
We need to stop paying federal taxes. We're being cheated at every turn.
We have no representation. Every 4 years another Republican victory rips more of our country apart while the Democrats offer timidity.
We are PAYING for EVERYTHING! Billionaires ceased paying taxes. Some of their corporations have a NET POSITIVE CASH FLOW AT TAX TIME! People like Elon Musk and his Nazis are allowed to run roughshod over institutions.
We pay the tax. We have no functional representation in Washington. This game of make-believe because a Democrat won a pyrrhic victory has got to stop.
Billionaires control congress, the White House, and SCOTUS. They've decided among themselves that their money is worth more than our votes. They've decided to eradicate immigrants. They've decided to gut public schools. They've decided we, who pay for the government, should all die as the climate heats up. They've removed goddamned water breaks for workers in Florida.
If you don't want to stop paying taxes, if you don't want to stop work for a week at a time, then please prepare yourselves and your weapons.
If you don't want to see everything around you blown up by the Russian/American military, please stop paying federal taxes and please stop going to work.
"Is the head dead yet" - Dirty Laundry
EVERY company should already pay it's fair share in #taxes That would bring in enough money for #UBI
"AI could wipe out more specialized white-collar roles that may have required years of expensive training and education — and those workers may not be so easily retrained for equal or higher-paying jobs.
Amodei suggested that lawmakers may even need to consider levying a tax on AI companies."
"Republicans hate taxes" has never been true.
They adore regressive taxes, i.e. taxes that burden poorer people more than the wealthy.
The tariffs absolutely hit that sweet spot of cruelty.
At the local level, we have seen two sales tax ballot initiatives, both initiated by Republicans, financed by GOP donors with "libraries, firefighters, social services" branding. Both passed. Most of the money went to cops, 
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#PaulWalczak, 55, joined his mother’s nursing home business after dropping out of college, eventually becoming CEO. She sold the company in 2007 & they invested $18M in a new #NursingHome in Florida, where they lived a luxurious lifestyle.
By 2011…Walczak had stopped paying employment #taxes.
2016–2019…he withheld >$10M from paychecks of #nurses, #doctors & others who worked at his facilities under the pretext of using it for their #SocialSecurity, #Medicare & federal income taxes.
Here's a glaring difference between the United States and Canada.
Canada taxes high income earners at 51% or more in order to support the good of all the citizens.
The United States, in some cases, assess no tax on the highest earners in the country to the detriment of all the citizens.
@mvario
Here’s the lie, the bullshit. Army doesn’t pay for any of it. The us tax payers do. I’m disgusted. Why doesn’t the headline doesn’t tell the truth? The money comes from the hard working American people. A DC parade with tanks on a public street….WTF. #taxes #army #military #parade #usa Sure glad that fearless leader who has sworn that he is saving us money everyday is doing it with huge parade. Is he gonna charge a fee to televise it? Charge money for tickets for vip seating? #america
The #legislation, which could change in the #Senate, would raise #taxes on #universities like #Harvard, as well as on #immigrants & on companies based in countries w/taxes the #Trump admin deems unfair. Owners of major #sports franchises, a group Trump repeatedly tried & failed to join, would also see a tax increase.
“If you’re an #ideological friend of Trump,
you’re in generally good shape. If you’re an ideological foe, you pay more,”said William Gale, a co-dir of the Tax Policy Center.
#Trump said he wants to charge higher import #taxes on goods from the #EU, a long-standing US #ally, than from #China, a geopolitical rival that had its #tariffs cut to 30% this month so Washington & Beijing could hold negotiations. Trump was upset by the lack of progress in trade talks with the EU, which has proposed mutually cutting tariffs to zero even as Trump has publicly insisted on preserving a baseline 10% tax on most imports.
At the same time, a proposal making its way through #Congress that would increase #taxes on #university #endowments could cost #Harvard an estimated $850 million a year.
The wider #academic community was shocked at Thursday’s move by the #Trump Admin. In a statement, Sally Kornbluth, president of the #MIT, called it a “grave moment.”
