As acting attorney general, Todd Blanche has shown a willingness to execute the president’s maximalist demands. Whether the Senate will confirm him remains unclear.

The President said the journalist must be "crooked or stupid" as he looked visibly frustrated by the line of questioning during NBC's Meet the Press.

It was the department’s clearest statement to date that it was pulling back from a plan to use taxpayer money to make payments to people who claimed to have been politically persecuted.

Even as they rebelled against a $1.8 billion fund for President Trump’s allies, Republicans looked the other way as his administration granted him potentially lucrative tax protections.

Critics say it is unseemly for retired judges to trade on the prestige of their former positions.

The acting attorney general said the administration was preserving a broad order protecting the president and his family from audits of already filed returns, despite dropping a $1.8 billion payout fund.

Let’s acknowledge this up front: It’s good to see that Senate Republicans have—for the time being, anyway—forced Donald Trump to back off plans for a $1.8 billion slush fund for allies and insurrectionists. Trump suspended the idea after Republicans made it clear that they won’t pass funding for Immigration and Customs Enforcement without legislative language starkly limiting the fund or…

The fund has drawn backlash from critics who said it was a scheme to reward President Trump’s political allies with public benefits.

We’ve heard a lot about what it can do for businesses, and for individuals, but what about society?

Discussions among a group of lawyers with allegiance to the president were closely held. Some senior White House officials were said to have felt blindsided as the agreement took shape.

The ruling was a blow to both President Trump, who had voluntarily dismissed the suit last week, and to the Justice Department, which used the suit to establish a fund likely intended for Trump allies.

Federal law prohibits the Internal Revenue Service from halting an audit at the direction of the president or his aides.

Critics say the deal creates a “slush fund,” a term with a colorful maritime history.

Once seen by some as the most conventional of President Trump’s political appointees, Todd Blanche has taken off the gloves in his new role as acting attorney general.

The deal the president reached with his own subordinates relies on a mechanism created by Congress that legal experts had warned was subject to manipulation.

Plus, Tesla’s big bet on big rigs.

The tax service argued that the Trump Organization tried to claim the same losses twice. The president said the audit was a “disgrace.”

The U.S. government will permanently drop tax claims against President Donald Trump, according to a settlement document that is part of a deal to resolve Trump’s $10 billion lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Serviceover the leak of his tax returns.

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The acting attorney general told lawmakers the fund would review claims from an array of people, not just Republicans.

As part of the Justice Department’s compensation fund deal, officials vowed not to pursue any matters, including those involving President Trump’s tax returns, that are pending.

Officials wrote a memo outlining ways to challenge President Trump’s suit against the Internal Revenue Service. The administration is instead creating an “anti-weaponization” fund.

The Trump administration is creating a $1.8 billion fund to compensate people it says were wronged by the federal government, a group that could be largely made up of the president’s allies.

The Trump administration said Monday that it is creating a $1.7 billion fund to compensate prosecuted allies of the Republican president after he moved to drop his lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service.

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Does anyone he encounters dare to dispute his delusions?

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One of the settlement terms under review is for the I.R.S. to drop any audits of the president, his family members and businesses.

A federal judge has ordered the Justice Department to explain whether it intends to contest President Trump’s $10 billion lawsuit against the I.R.S. over the disclosure of his tax returns.

I hate, hate, hate filing taxes. There is a better way.

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IRS Chief Executive Officer Frank Bisignano said his goal is “creating a digital IRS” that can help more taxpayers online, shifting the burden off its phones.

The IRS will have special Saturday hours this weekend at some Taxpayer Assistance Centers across the country, and will extend weekday hours through April 30.

Seven Democratic U.S. senators have launched a probe into a $370 million “alternative fuel” payout to Cheniere Energy, made earlier this year by the IRS, that critics say the liquefied natural gas export company never should have received. An earlier Inside Climate News investigation into the company’s push to get that tax credit for using […]