Former IRS Commissioner John Koskinen joins Lawrence O’Donnell to discuss President Biden’s plan to increase funding for the IRS to crack down on tax avoidance, which costs the United States as much as $1 trillion annually.
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Are you kidding me? Tax the rich please 🙏
Who cares about the failing corrupt system of Satan. Extract yourself and be free.
@TheBase1aransas extract this. 😆
And what would that do? Why do you feel entitled to their money, besides autism?
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Thanks ok IRS I’ll send you a few dollars.
Trump paid $ 750 last years in Federal Taxes.
Umm, I think I know one orange bafoon who has seemingly taken advantage of this. 🤔
Trump paid just $ 750 in Federal Taxes last year..
They’ve underfunded the agency because they have a buncha sh*t to hide.
Yeah, MORE Proof the GOP has NO Idea what they are doing, period.. Obstruction and Lies are all they know how to do… Pathetic…
Either they don’t know what they are doing… or they *do.*
Who knows which is worse.
Oh, I suspect they know what they’re doing lol
Yeh What he said…..they take it right off the top from the uhhh work force then up at the top they can sort you know fudge things if you will. Say like buy a couple new cars and tell the irs you didn’t make any money for yourself and the business took a loss too. Shoot…..
If you give the IRS more power it will headhunt more people, yes.
Not just but the right ones. They don’t have the monetary resources to do lengthy audit on the richest people or to defend in court.
They are aware of that. They are the ones not being investigated. They wanted it that way.
Oh the GOP knows exactly why they underfund the IRS.
Trump paid $ 750 last years in Federal Taxes.
Add people working on a bounty system. Give them a share of what they collect.
President Trump paid just $ 750 in Federal Taxes last year.
So, hear me out here…
what if we put a percentage of the money the IRS “earns” by thwarting tax avoidance back into funding the IRS?
President Trump paid just $ 750 in Federal Taxes last year.
The IRS does not want to acknowledge people who have paid off their personal income tax and my money paid up to 70% of the construction cost of MetroTech Center Downtown Brooklyn where I placed an IRS office.
Republicans “never understood this” about the IRS because *they were aiding and abetting tax cheats and being bribed and extorted by said tax cheats to allow it to continue*.
Trump paid just $ 750 in Federal Taxes last year.
under oath before congress the IRS testified that only 1/4 of taxes owed are paid because they cant go after the ‘complex’ cases ie cased with the big money. enough money for lawyers and to hide thier money.
They mysteriously “continued to under-fund the agency” on purpose. When they’re under-funded they still collect the easy taxes from people with paychecks. But the people shuffling millions around in off-shore accounts and multiple businesses, that’s who they don’t have the ability to track. It almost makes me think they might have done it on purpose..
The IRS would rather spend it’s time on a person like me and denying my $800 tax refund.
In other words, they are planning to tax you more
Public officials do not understand the concept of “return on investment” accountability that the private sector demands, hence the lack of IRS investment and other money losing boondoggles.
Dont let this distract you from the fact that tax laws are written by the rich for the rich.