Cigarette Smuggling: It Adds Up
The “Tobacco Trail” tempts two-bit crooks and big-time smuggling rings.
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The Soggy Saga of a Tax on Groundwater
An effort to cut income taxes and improve water quality in The Netherlands foundered by doing lots of things not too well.
‘America Is Not Stupid’ Wins IRS Recognition as Tax-Exempt Non-Profit
Tax regulators recognize two related dark money groups, even though they appear to have made misleading statements on their applications for tax-exempt status.
Paying It Forward
You make it, you pay. Why should taxpayers foot the bill for recycling all of that wasteful plastic?
The Top 1% of U.S. Income Earners Receive 15% of Tax Breaks and Credits
And about half of all tax expenditures go to the top 20 percent.
Is Exotic Dance … Dance?
Susan Elizabeth Shepard spoke to anthropologist Judith Lynne Hanna about the question at the heart of a case petitioned to be heard by the Supreme Court.
The IRS’s Tea Party Tax Row: How ‘Exclusively’ Became ‘Primarily’
Tax-exemption guru Ellen Aprill delves into the language behind some of the IRS's activities and finds that cracking the “macaroni monopoly” set the table for today’s Tea Party tax scandal.
Fiscal Cliff: Congressional Research Study Had This All Figured Out Weeks Ago
Amid holiday clamor over the politics of the so-called “fiscal cliff,” Thomas L. Hungerford must be off somewhere…
The Game Done Changed, Governor Brown
Election Day is tomorrow, and Prop 30, a California ballot initiative notable for its tax hike on the…