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PrivacyDigest

#ICE Plans Central Database of Health, Labor, Housing Agency Data to Find Targets

Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE) is planning to bring together data from a wide variety of other U.S. gov agencies, including the Dept of Labor ( #DOL ), Health & Human Services ( #HHS ), Dept of Housing & Urban Development ( #HUD ), & the #IRS to make a centralized database to identify #immigration targets, according to a document viewed by 404 Media.
#cbp #privacy #surveillance

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404 Media · ICE Plans Central Database of Health, Labor, Housing Agency Data to Find TargetsA document viewed by 404 Media describes ICE's plans to incorporate data from the Department of Labor (DOL), Health and Human Services (HHS), and the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) into a tool called ATrac.
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MJ Muse

Traitor Trump’s pick to head the Internal Revenue Service, Fascist Grifter Billy Long pressed the agency to investigate and consider stripping the country’s leading animal welfare group, the Humane Society, of its tax status. The letter followed the Humane Society’s support of a successful Missouri ballot measure strengthening regulations on dog breeders.
#TrumpRegimeCruelty #HumaneSociety
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Miguel Afonso Caetano

Next step: Outlawing Universities that foster Critical Thinking?

"The Internal Revenue Service is making plans to rescind the tax-exempt status of Harvard University, according to two sources familiar with the matter, which would be an extraordinary step of retaliation as the Trump administration seeks to turn up pressure on the university that has defied its demands to change its hiring and other practices.

A final decision on rescinding the university’s tax exemption is expected soon, the sources said.

The administration already has blocked more than $2 billion in funding from the nation’s oldest university, which is fighting the White House’s policy demands, citing the constitutional right of private universities to determine their own teaching practices.

President Donald Trump in recent days raised the idea of punishing the Ivy League university for not complying with what the administration has sought to portray as a campaign to fight antisemitism.

“Perhaps Harvard should lose its Tax Exempt Status and be Taxed as a Political Entity if it keeps pushing political, ideological, and terrorist inspired/supporting ‘Sickness?’ Remember, Tax Exempt Status is totally contingent on acting in the PUBLIC INTEREST!” Trump posted on Truth Social on Tuesday."

edition.cnn.com/2025/04/16/pol

CNN · IRS making plans to rescind Harvard’s tax-exempt statusBy Evan Perez
#USA#Trump#IRS
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Nonilex

The NYT’s report added that the next acting #IRS chief is expected to be the dpty secy of the #Treasury, Michael Faulkender. If that proves true, he’ll be the 5th person to serve as the IRS’ leader in the last 3 months. #Chaos

In Jan, then-IRS Commissioner Danny Werfel, who was nominated by #Biden, resigned on Inauguration Day as #Trump prepared to replace him. Werfel was followed by Doug O’Donnell, a longtime IRS ofcl, who stepped down 1 month later.

#US#idiocracy#kakistocracy
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Nonilex

But to fully appreciate just how #ridiculous conditions have become at the #IRS, consider the revolving door in the commissioner’s office. NYT reported:

The acting commissioner of the IRS is being replaced after #Treasury Secy #ScottBessent complained to #Trump that the latest leader of the agency had been installed without his knowledge & at the behest of billionaire #ElonMusk.

nytimes.com/2025/04/18/us/poli

Gary Shapley, a longtime I.R.S. agent, was lauded by conservatives after he publicly argued that the Justice Department had slow-walked its investigation into Hunter Biden’s taxes.
The New York Times · I.R.S. Head Is Ousted in Treasury Leader Bessent’s Struggle With MuskBy Jonathan Swan
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Nonilex

Amid #Trump-imposed #chaos, #IRS loses its 4th commissioner in 3 months

How short was #GaryShapley's tenure? He's out after >1 week on the job.

In recent weeks, the Internal Revenue Service has lost its chief of staff, its chief financial officer, its chief information officer & its top officials overseeing #privacy & #risk policy, all of which has had a predictably #destabilizing effect on the #tax agency.

[begs the question: why did I file/pay #taxes this year??]
msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/m

MSNBC · Amid Trump-imposed chaos, IRS loses its fourth commissioner in three monthsBy Steve Benen
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Laffy

“The acting commissioner of the #IRS is being replaced after Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent complained to President Trump that the latest leader of the agency had been installed without his knowledge and at the behest of billionaire Elon #Musk…”

nytimes.com/2025/04/18/us/poli

Gary Shapley, a longtime I.R.S. agent, was lauded by conservatives after he publicly argued that the Justice Department had slow-walked its investigation into Hunter Biden’s taxes.
The New York Times · I.R.S. Head Is Ousted in Treasury Leader Bessent’s Struggle With MuskBy Jonathan Swan
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Tony Novak

“We fix TurboTax returns”
TurboTax now holds about a 60% market share in the U.S. tax software market, indicating continued dominance and growing market share. Over the past couple of years, solving tax problems created by taxpayers using TurboTax has grown to more than half of my compliance and resolution services. This month of April 2025 is the first time 100% of my new business stems from problems originated with TurboTax filers. While many tax professionals prefer to avoid clients who file their own tax returns. I welcome it, and perhaps that explains the difference in experience. But once a new client realizes that I do not charge any extra for filing tax returns, they usually ask me to do it. It takes less time for me (and costs clients less) to do the tax return myself and review it with them then it does to find, explain, and correct the costly errors they made. But I am happy to do it either way.
#taxes
#IRS

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Laffy

“#Trump admin official in March asked #IRS to review audit of MyPillow guy Mike Lindell

David Eisner, a political appointee at the Treasury Department, wrote to senior IRS staff that Lindell — whom he called a “high profile friend of the president” — had received his second audit letter in 2 years and “he is concerned he may have been inappropriately targeted.” washingtonpost.com/business/20

The Washington Post · Trump appointee asked IRS to review audit of MyPillow CEO Mike LindellBy Jacob Bogage
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