After Backlash Over $600 IRS Bank Surveillance, Democrats Revise Proposal
By Tyler Durden Senate Democrats on Tuesday plan to release a reworked version of a Biden administration proposal to surveil US bank accounts – after…
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An Emboldened, Super-Funded IRS to Target Bank Depositors
By Stefan Gleason Insidious plans are afoot in Washington to give IRS officials another $80 billion for auditors and then unleash them on bank account…
Former Fed President: Government Snooping on Bank Transactions Over $600 a “Massive Search Without a Search Warrant”
By Jon Miltimore A proposal from the Biden Administration that would require banks to monitor personal accounts and report all financial transactions over $600 to…
The Cryptocurrency Surveillance Provision Buried in the Infrastructure Bill is a Disaster for Digital Privacy
By Rainey Reitman The forthcoming Senate draft of Biden’s infrastructure bill—a 2,000+ page bill designed to update the United States’ roads, highways, and digital infrastructure—contains…
IRS Sent $1,200 Stimulus Checks to Random European Citizens, New Reporting Shows
By Brad Polumbo Congress is debating another round of COVID-19 stimulus legislation right now. But as the details continue to be hashed out, new evidence…
IRS Investigated For Warrantless Location Tracking Of Americans
By Tyler Durden Following Ron Wyden and Elizabeth Warren’s request for the Treasury Department watchdog to investigate the IRS’ use of smartphone location data to…
High-Income Taxpayers Now Confronted At Home By IRS Agents
By Tyler Durden The IRS announced Wednesday that it would increase at-home visitations to high-income taxpayers who haven’t filed tax returns on time. Remember when the IRS…
10,000 American Cryptocurrency Owners Will Receive Warning Letters From the IRS
By Jamie Redman On July 26, the U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced that the tax agency has started sending letters to American cryptocurrency owners…
How Government Agencies Make Criminals of Crypto Traders
By Graham Smith A New Jersey man has been indicted this week for converting over $2 million to bitcoin and operating a private exchange business…
IRS Agents Propose Draconian Tactics to Investigate Bitcoin Users
By Jamie Redman A recently published U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS) slide describes alarming recommendations on how tax agents should deal with digital currency users…
Want To Abolish The Internal Revenue Service? See H.R. 25
By Catherine J. Frompovich For years everyone has been talking about getting rid of the Internal Revenue Service, which most folks think is next to…
IRS to Revoke 362,000 Passports From US Citizens
By Simon Black, Sovereign Man About two and a half years ago, I told you about a particularly nasty piece of legislation that President Obama quietly…
Consumer Alert Regarding IRS Phishing Scam Via Email
By Catherine J. Frompovich Today I received an obvious phishing scam sent by someone posing as an IRS agent. What I did was NOT open…
IRS Awards Multi-Million Dollar Fraud-Prevention Contract To Equifax Who Was Hacked TWICE
By Aaron Kesel You can’t make this up. The IRS awarded Equifax with a multi-million dollar fraud prevention no-bid contract despite that its own execs…