The company aggressively fought back in court, lobbied Congress and changed the law. |
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| For years, the company has moved billions in profits to Puerto Rico to avoid taxes. When the IRS pushed it to pay, Microsoft protested that the agency wasn't being nice. Then it aggressively fought back in court, lobbied Congress and changed the law. |
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The tax agency, Justice Department and Congress have all taken aim at a much-abused deduction exploited by wealthy investors. Yet the crackdown is having minimal impact, costing the Treasury billions. | |
Congress asked the IRS to report on why it audits the poor more than the affluent. Its response is that it doesn't have enough money and people to audit the wealthy properly. So it's not going to. | |
As the agency's ability to audit the rich crumbles, its scrutiny of the poor has held steady in recent years. Meanwhile, a new study shows that audits of poor taxpayers make them far less likely to claim credits they might be entitled to. | |
Until the budget-starved agency is restored, corporations and the wealthy will easily fend off attempts to increase the rates they pay. by Jesse Eisinger and Paul Kiel | |
Six years after it was excoriated for allegedly targeting conservative organizations, the agency has largely given up on regulating an entire category of nonprofits. The result: More dark money gushes into the political system. by Maya Miller special to ProPublica | |
Ten years ago, the tax agency formed a special team to unravel the complex tax-lowering strategies of the nation's wealthiest people. But with big money — and Congress — arrayed against the team, it never had a chance. by Jesse Eisinger and Paul Kiel | |
A new study shows dramatic regional differences in who gets audited. The hardest hit? Poor workers across the country. by Paul Kiel and Hannah Fresques | |
The IRS is underfunded and understaffed. One result: audits of the wealthy are rapidly declining. | |
If you claim the earned income tax credit, whose average recipient makes less than $20,000 a year, you're more likely to face IRS scrutiny than someone making twenty times as much. How a benefit for the working poor was turned against them. by Paul Kiel and Jesse Eisinger | |
An eight-year campaign to slash the agency's budget has left it understaffed, hamstrung and operating with archaic equipment. The result: billions less to fund the government. That's good news for corporations and the wealthy. by Paul Kiel and Jesse Eisinger | |
Millions of low-income families rely on the earned income tax credit. We took an IRS audit notice sent to one taxpayer who'd claimed the EITC and annotated it to help explain what it really means. | |
Audits and criminal referrals are down sharply since Congress cut the tax agency's budget and management changed priorities. by Jesse Eisinger and Paul Kiel | |
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