Today, Americans for Tax Fairness (ATF) released the following statement marking the first 100 days of the second Trump administration:
“President Trump in his first 100 days has pursued a tax agenda designed to benefit his fellow billionaires,” said David Kass, ATF’s Executive Director. “He’s attempting to dismantle the IRS to prevent it from collecting taxes from the ultra-wealthy and eliminate any accountability mechanism for powerful tax cheats. As we speak, Trump and his allies in Congress are pushing forward plans to expand his 2017 tax law—an expensive failure that gave trillions to the nation’s wealthiest families and most profitable corporations while failing to deliver real economic benefits to ordinary people. Rather than reforming our broken tax system to make it fairer, he has spent his first 100 days making the tax system even more favorable to elite interests and billionaires at the expense of ordinary Americans.”
The fair and efficient administration of tax policy has been among the many victims of Donald Trump’s 100-day rampage against public service and civil society. Among the damage done:
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Hatching plans to eliminate a quarter and or even up to a half of Internal Revenue staff, ensuring free passes for rich tax cheats and slower refunds for honest taxpayers;
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Abolishing the Direct File system that’s saved families millions of dollars in tax prep fees;
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Prioritizing the permanent extension of tax cuts that will add $5.5 trillion to the national debt while overwhelmingly benefitting the wealthy;
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Nominating as IRS commissioner an ethically challenged auctioneer with no relevant experience who has endorsed obliterating the agency he’s meant to lead and replacing it with a national sales tax that would clobber working families.