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WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, America First Legal (AFL) filed a lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and the Department of the Treasury for unlawfully concealing records regarding the Biden Administration’s plans for race-based tax audits. Congress prohibits the IRS from collecting data on taxpayer race and ethnicity directly and from acquiring such data indirectly from other agencies. However, to advance the “equity” cult, the Biden Administration simply steamrolled the law. On May 18, 2021, the Department’s Deputy Secretary Wally Adeyemo said that “racial equity” was a key factor in the Administration’s “design of tax compliance.” On December 14, 2021,...

14,700 Taxpayers Voluntarily Disclosed Foreign Accounts to IRS Washington, D.C. (November 17, 2009) Over 14,700 holders of foreign bank accounts told the Internal Revenue Service about the existence of the accounts under a voluntary disclosure program. IRS Commissioner Doug Shulman said the agency received voluntary disclosures about the presence of billions of dollars in assets in bank accounts located in 70 countries. Doug Shulman “To put it simply, this is a historic milestone for the nation’s hard-working taxpayers,” he said, according to the Associated Press. The IRS had extended the program and offered to allow most of those who came...