Tuesday, June 3, 2025

Tag: taxes

“Billionaires and big corporations sharpening their knives”: Progressive tax groups sound...

With a Congress poised to push for sweeping tax cuts for the wealthy and corporations, progressive organizations brace for a fierce battle to prevent policies that would deepen inequality and burden working Americans.

Lawmakers demand tax reform as major corporations pay executives more than...

Senators Warren and Whitehouse, along with Representative Casar, lead a call for fair taxation amid revelations of corporate tax avoidance and CEO overcompensation.

Ending oil subsidies and taxing the rich could unlock $5 trillion...

The report, released during the United Nations General Assembly talks and ahead of the COP29 climate summit, outlines a series of proposals that could shift resources away from environmentally harmful practices and toward sustainable development.

Harris breaks with Biden on capital gains tax based on ‘failed...

Speaking to supporters, Harris emphasized the importance of supporting investment in small businesses and innovation while ensuring that the wealthy pay their fair share.

Project 2025: How the far-right’s tax plan would hike middle-class taxes...

Project 2025, a far-right agenda, proposes radical tax reforms that would disproportionately burden middle-income Americans while granting significant tax breaks to the wealthiest households and large corporations.

The United States needs a ‘Robin Hood Tax’

A giant tax fight awaits next year—when a number of the 2017 tax cuts for the rich and businesses expire.

Kamala Harris signals support for billionaires tax amid growing wealth inequality

This endorsement marks a crucial step in addressing the widening wealth gap in the country, particularly as billionaires continue to amass vast fortunes while millions of Americans struggle financially.

Undocumented immigrants pay higher tax rates than top 1% in most...

New study reveals that undocumented immigrants pay nearly $100 billion in taxes annually, contributing more to state and local revenues than the wealthiest Americans in most states, while being excluded from the social programs they help fund.

IRS reclaims over $1 billion from wealthy tax evaders in under...

New IRS funding from the Inflation Reduction Act targets wealthy tax dodgers, reclaiming over $1 billion in unpaid taxes.

Supreme Court upholds mandatory repatriation tax in Moore case

The mandatory repatriation tax (MRT) was enacted in 2017 as part of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act and the provision has raised more than $300 billion of revenue for the federal government since then.

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When do the ‘primal, profit-driven forces of nature’—racked with buyer’s remorse—dethrone or defang MAGA...

If you credit mass buyers’ remorse by hoodwinked MAGA voters, that goes double for flabbergasted tycoons once open to disruption (and donor payoffs) but now bullied by the allegedly pro-business browbeater.

Outrage in Massachusetts after ICE detains high school student on way to volleyball practice

Milford residents demand answers and justice after ICE agents detain 18-year-old Marcelo Gomes da Silva, sparking statewide protests and national criticism of the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown.

Billions in clean energy projects canceled amid Republican tax bill and fossil fuel agenda

Clean energy investments are vanishing as the Trump administration’s tax plan and rollback of Biden-era climate policies threaten America’s transition to renewables.

Greta Thunberg and 11 other volunteers set out on mercy mission to Gaza

A crowd of supporters gathered at the port with Palestinian flags to encourage the 12-person crew. The mission is sponsored by the Freedom Flotilla organization.

‘Another aid massacre’: Israeli military kills dozens near privatized Gaza food site

For the third consecutive day, Israeli forces fired on Palestinians seeking food at a controversial U.S.-backed aid site, raising international outcry and renewed calls for accountability amid a spiraling humanitarian catastrophe.