Internal Revenue Service Archives

Good to Know: How tariffs work

Alexandra Guisinger - December 20, 2024

The idea of tariffs as a tax revenue stream seems easy to understand. Their political consequences are less so.

Elizabeth N. Saunders, Sarah Binder, Michael Tesler, Jordan Tama, and Andrew Payne - November 14, 2023

Four experts examine how U.S. foreign policy is dividing both Republicans and Democrats.

Elizabeth Meehan - October 12, 2022

Will the Corporate Transparency Act cut down on illicit financial dealings? That’s the plan.

Joshua McCabe - July 19, 2022

Liberal groups don’t like Mitt Romney’s proposal to limit who gets tax credits designed to help lift children from poverty

John Kane and Ian G. Anson - April 21, 2022

Our research found ways to increase public support for funding the agency

Edward Walker - May 13, 2021

The technology used this time may be new, but the practice has been around for decades

Todd N. Tucker - April 5, 2021

Businesses have declared ‘all-out war’ on the Biden tax agenda

Henry Farrell - August 27, 2020

Between 2008 and 2016, global banks paid the U.S. over $34 billion in fines

Virginia Oliveros, Rebecca Weitz-Shapiro, and Matthew S. Winters - April 28, 2020

What we know about the consequences of name-stamping public policy

Zoe Nemerever - April 22, 2020

For years, these locally elected officials have been leading rebellions against government authority.