Taxes done, I got a under $200 refund.
Used to get about $1500.
Thanks, tRump
Taxes done, I got a under $200 refund.
Used to get about $1500.
Thanks, tRump
#Palantir Is Helping #DOGE With a Massive #IRS Data Project
For the past three days, DOGE and a handful of Palantir representatives, along with dozens of career IRS engineers, have been collaborating to build a “mega API,” WIRED has learned.
#api #privacy #security
https://www.wired.com/story/palantir-doge-irs-mega-api-data/
Some photos from today's belated 50501 / #Indivisible / #HandsOff #protest and march in #Memphis #Tennessee! (Last week was postponed due to tornadoes and flooding.)
There was a boisterous crowd of several hundred awesome people, plus a few radical leftist good dogs. Signs spanned all the topics: #Trump, #ElonMusk, #DOGE, #Ukraine, #xAI, #SocialSecurity, the #IRS, #science...
LOL as I am assisting my widowed MIL to file her taxes in North Carolina. The IRS has extended the tax deadline for ALL North Carolina residents to May 1st.... BUT ..... The advice is to file (or extend) by April 15th, because the IRS and NC State Tax people may not know that. LOL. LOL. LOL. https://www.wcnc.com/article/news/verify/north-carolina-tax-deadline-extension-may-1-hurricane-helene-relief/275-964ef3e1-66aa-4bf4-a44e-eba48ff14bf4 #IRS #NorthCarolina #Taxes
#Palantir Is Helping #DOGE With a Massive #IRS Data Project
"Palantir, the software company cofounded by Peter #Thiel, is part of an effort by Elon #Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency (#DOGE) to build a new “mega API” for accessing Internal Revenue Service records, IRS sources tell WIRED.
Palantir representatives have been onsite...to exchange data and could be used to move IRS data to the #cloud and access it there..."
https://www.wired.com/story/palantir-doge-irs-mega-api-data/
You shouldn't have to sacrifice your freedom to file your #taxes electronically: https://u.fsf.org/46g #IRS #FreeSoftware #DirectFile #FSF
#Palantir Is helping #DOGE build an #API for accessing #IRS records
https://www.wired.com/story/palantir-doge-irs-mega-api-data/
Heads up. Don't forget that if you care for a loved one, or someone you live with, and get paid through a Medicaid Home and Community-Based Services waiver program for personal care and supportive home care, make sure you or your accountant check to see if that is tax free income via IRS Notice 2014-7.
Many people treat this as self-employment income and pay thousands in taxes that they don't have to pay.
DOGE hasn't rescinded that rule yet.
#taxes #doge #medicaid #IRS #April15
Certain Medicaid waiver payments may be excludable from income
https://www.irs.gov/individuals/certain-medicaid-waiver-payments-may-be-excludable-from-income
This is disturbing —
As the #Trump admin takes the legal status away from thousands of migrants afforded #TPS by President Biden, they are crippling them financially by putting them on #IRS ‘dead’ lists to encourage them to ‘self-deport’.
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(screenshots of the entire article to follow)
#USA #immigration #deportation
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/10/us/politics/migrants-deport-social-security-doge.html
https://www.europesays.com/1987118/ Trump Overturns IRS Rule on Crypto Brokers With New Bill: Report #crypto #CryptoBroker #cryptocurrency #DecentralizedExchanges #DecentralizedFinance #defi #DEX #irs #News #trump
correct me if am wrong: technically there are no #tariffs collectors at ports of entry. there’s only people who fill out some paperwork taking numbers declared at face value. then you, as the importer pay some minimum to get the goods "off the dock"; but it’s the #IRS that figures out how much on tariffs importers end up paying, based on sales reported to them, right?
https://assemblag.es/@inquiline/114320742541428584
which is why i’ve always assumed rich people with private yatchs/docks & planes/airports are smugglers
You shouldn't have to sacrifice your freedom to file your #taxes electronically: https://u.fsf.org/46g #IRS #FreeSoftware #DirectFile #FSF
Trump’s Social Security Administration Is Declaring Immigrants Dead https://www.byteseu.com/911059/ #America #doge #DonaldTrump #ElonMusk #HomelandSecurity #Immigration #irs #SocialSecurity #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #US #USNews #USA #USANews
In what must be understood as a tightening of the digital panopticon the fascist Trump regime is deploying to target migrants, the administration has negotiated an agreement between ICE and the IRS to share tax data with the American Gestapo for the purpose of facilitating mass deportations, without the consent of the IRS's acting commissioner - who has since resigned in protest:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/08/irs-ice-tax-data
IRS agrees to share tax information of undocumented immigrants with Ice
"A memorandum of understanding between the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the IRS was filed late on Monday in a case brought by immigrants’ rights groups Centro de Trabajadores Unidos and Immigrant Solidarity DuPage, represented by Public Citizen and other lawyers. The memo says Ice can request information from the IRS for its investigations into undocumented immigrants who have not left the country after receiving a final order of removal from a judge. It is signed by the treasury secretary, Scott Bessent, and the homeland security secretary, Kristi Noem.
The Washington Post reported on Tuesday evening that the acting IRS commissioner, Melanie Krause, is planning to resign, in part over being bypassed in the decision.
The lawsuit over the plans to share IRS information, filed in March, says Internal Revenue Code makes clear that tax records for all taxpayers must be confidential, disclosed only in ways authorized by statute.
“Taxpayer privacy is a cornerstone of the US tax system,” said Lisa Gilbert, co-president of Public Citizen. “This movement by the IRS is an unprecedented breach of taxpayer privacy laws – confidentiality which has been respected by both political parties for decades.”
Although every expansion of the regime's ability to hunt down and target migrants is an important stepping stone to a white nationalist dictatorship, this policy is particularly cruel and nonsensical. For starters, it deprives the US government of tax revenue because an overwhelming number of undocumented people do in fact pay their taxes. More importantly however, the US government and the IRS have been encouraging migrants to do so for decades, under the promise that this information won't be used to target and deport them. In one single agreement signed by two members of the Trumpenreich, the US government has simultaneously harmed the American people, and forced more migrants further underground, to break our collective promise to folks who otherwise would have stayed below the radar:
"The Trump administration has been working to get the IRS and Ice to agree on some information sharing for weeks, a way to use tax filings to aid in his mass deportations. The Washington Post reported on a draft of the agreement in March, citing current and former IRS workers who said the move would be an unprecedented change in access to tax records and upend immigrants’ willingness to file taxes.
“It is a complete betrayal of 30 years of the government telling immigrants to file their taxes,” one former IRS official told the Washington Post."
I wonder if anyone noticed the paper on the dresser in Gurk in Trouble - A Yip Quest Story.
My local news covered the report that #OrangeHitler wants the #IRS tax info of illegal immigrants WHO PAY THEIR TAXES to target them for #deportation.
(Of all the people to target. #JFC.) #1984wasNotAnInstructionManual
https://www.khou.com/article/news/local/ice-irs-tax-records-undocuments-immigrants/285-67f2c152-ac5a-49c7-9971-aaaae57e2a7f
The IRS is projected to lose more than $313 billion in revenue in the coming decade since undocumented workers will pay fewer taxes.
Why? The IRS struck a deal to share data with US immigration authorities— data it had promised in the past to keep confidential.
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Note: The undocumented workers generally pay taxes through payroll levies, and they pay into Medicare and Social Security they are not allowed to receive.
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