- Tax-Dodging Billionaire Dynasties Could Cost US $8.4 Trillion: Report | The wealth-hoarding by ultrarich families would be equivalent to over four Build Back Better plans. https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/02/02/tax-dodging-billionaire-dynasties-could-cost-us-84-trillion-report 53 comments politics
- Newly obtained data shows the IRS division that audits corporations and the ultrarich flagged no more than 22 possible tax crimes over the past five years — roughly 40 times fewer criminal referrals than from the unit covering small businesses https://www.icij.org/inside-icij/2024/06/how-the-irs-went-soft-on-billionaires-and-corporate-tax-cheats/ 11 comments law
- The Billionaires Tax Is Back - Democratic Senator Ron Wyden has a plan to make the ultrarich pay. https://newrepublic.com/post/177721/billionaires-tax-back 183 comments politics
- Corporate America Just Threw A Party Celebrating Tax Cuts For The Ultrarich - The deficit squawks who attend each year seek to reverse the progress we’ve made investing in workers, families, and the economy in order to invest in the wealthiest Americans and large corporations. https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/defend-social-security 93 comments politics
- Corporate America Just Threw A Party Celebrating Tax Cuts For The Ultrarich https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/defend-social-security 26 comments economy
- Sanders joins millionaires’ call for G20 nations to tax ultrarich https://thehill.com/business/4192242-sanders-joins-millionaires-call-for-g20-nations-to-tax-ultra-rich/ 9 comments economy
- Sanders joins millionaires’ call for G20 nations to tax ultrarich https://thehill.com/business/4192242-sanders-joins-millionaires-call-for-g20-nations-to-tax-ultra-rich/ 78 comments politics
- Rift Between Senator and Son Shows the Challenge of Taxing the Ultrarich | A dispute between Ron Wyden, the Democratic Senate Finance Committee chairman, and his hedge fund-manager son illustrates how the merely rich help the fabulously rich resist tax increases. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/10/us/politics/taxing-the-rich.html 18 comments politics
- Do Not Welcome Our New Billionaire Overlords: Billionaires now hold so much of the world’s wealth, their apologists argue, there’s no choice but to rely on them for philanthropy. But we can’t take our eyes off the ball: We need to tax the ultrarich out of existence. https://jacobinmag.com/2021/11/elon-musk-wealth-tax-inequality-poverty-philanthropy 1107 comments politics
- Dems call for taxing the ultrarich after report shows they don't pay them https://www.politico.com/news/2021/06/08/ultra-rich-taxes-prob-hikes-democrats-492133 1163 comments politics
- The I.R.S. Is Outgunned - The agency doesn’t have the resources to battle the tax lawyers of the ultrarich. Trump’s returns are just one example of how little the wealthy pay. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/02/opinion/irs-tax-income-inequality.html 166 comments politics
- Tax the Ultrarich? Cuomo Resists, Even With a $14 Billion Budget Gap https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/07/nyregion/wealth-tax-budget-billionaires.html 138 comments politics
- An angry historian ripped the ultrarich over tax avoidance at Davos. Then one was given the mic. https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2019/01/31/an-angry-historian-ripped-ultra-rich-over-tax-avoidance-davos-then-one-was-given-mic/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.75e87b039f9e 21 comments politics
- ABC News: GOP bill would cut taxes for the ultrarich http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/video/gop-bill-cut-taxes-ultrarich-51893822 31 comments politics
- Trump's tax cuts would give the poor $40 each and the ultrarich $940,000 http://www.cnbc.com/2017/07/12/trumps-tax-cuts-would-give-the-poor-40-each-and-the-ultrarich-940000.html 48 comments politics
- Trump’s tax cuts would give the poor $40 each and the ultrarich $940,000 https://www.vox.com/platform/amp/policy-and-politics/2017/7/12/15959210/trump-tax-cuts-reform-tax-policy-center 317 comments politics
- Trump’s tax cuts would give the poor $40 each and the ultrarich $940,000 https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/7/12/15959210/trump-tax-cuts-reform-tax-policy-center 12 comments politics
- These Real Estate and Oil Tycoons Avoided Paying Taxes for Years | Donald Trump and other ultrarich Americans have earned billions, but they’ve also managed to repeatedly avoid paying any federal income tax by claiming huge losses on their businesses. https://www.propublica.org/article/these-real-estate-and-oil-tycoons-used-paper-losses-to-avoid-paying-taxes-for-years#1182856 12 comments economy