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The IRS issued an apology, admitting that its actions were wrong, but the damage was done. Three years of legal defense and legal fees fractured the movement. [...]

Protecting the very very rich from the rest of us (source)by Gaius PubliusIn an earlier piece on the Equifax data hack and its consequences, I predicted this:

Just hours after Equifax CEO Rick Smith wrapped up his testimony before the House Energy and Commerce committee – the first in a series of Congressional “fact-finding missions” about the hack – Politico reported that the IRS last week awarded the disgraced credit monitoring bureau with a $7.25 no-bid contract even as the company struggled to address suspicions that it mislead investors and customers by withholding information about one of the most damaging data breaches in US

(ANTIMEDIA) The horrific shooting in Las Vegas Sunday evening continues to dominate headlines — and understandably so. As details continue to emerge and calls for gun control flood the national conversation, however, another familiar pattern is playing out: other vital stories are falling through the cracks.
Here are five to follow as the nation processes one of the largest mass shootings in U.S. history:

The FBI is receiving tax information from the IRS on real estate and banking that goes back 11 years. ELEVEN YEARS! [...]

IRS executives said their lives were at risk in the Tea Party targeting case, implying that their corruption is so great that it would make taxpayers want to kill them. [...]

The Trump DOJ has no plans to charge Lois Lerner for her role in the Tea Party scandal that targeted conservative groups. This pattern of betrayal of Trump supporters becomes more obvious by the day. [...]

In the class action suit of Steele v. the United States, the Court ruled that the IRS would be required to return an estimated $270 million in “user fees” charged to American tax preparers. 

(MPN) In 2009, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) decided to end a three-year program that used private debt collectors to chase down delinquent taxpayers after an internal report found that it was actually losing the government money and that government employees were much more efficient at collecting debt

WASHINGTON, D.C.– In 2009, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) decided to end a three-year program that used private debt collectors to chase down delinquent taxpayers after an internal report found that it was actually losing the government money and that government employees were much more efficient at collecting debt than their private sector counterparts.