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Trump Forces IRS to Share Immigration Data with DHS to Advance Mass Deportations Today, undocumented immigrants and mixed-status families face an increasingly difficult situation as tax day approaches. Last week, the Trump administration announced an unprecedented agreement between the Internal Revenue Service and the Department of Homeland Security that allows department officials to access sensitive […]
Today, Americans for Tax Fairness released a new analysis showing that undocumented immigrants pay a higher effective tax rate than 55 large corporations and several of the nation’s wealthiest individuals. The report also found that undocumented immigrants use far fewer federal resources than major corporations, which receive billions in subsidies. Additionally, the analysis highlighted undocumented […]
  R&D Expensing, Part of Trump Tax-Law Debate, Would Reward Big Pharma, Even As Drug Firms Keep Raising Prices on Consumers & Government Eight big U.S. drug corporations are part of a business lobby fighting to restore a tax break that could have saved them up to a collective $15.5 billion in a recent year, according […]
Average Net Worth of Republican Members on Tax-Writing Panels Is Nearly $15 million–Richest Will Save Millions from Trump Cuts Multimillionaires will be making tax policy for working Americans, most prominently by pushing through extensions of the expiring provisions of the 2017 Trump-GOP tax law that mostly help them and their wealthy donors. The average net worth […]
Today, a comprehensive new joint report published by Americans for Tax Fairness, the Private Equity Stakeholder Project, and Americans for Financial Reform Education Fund exposes the often destructive impacts of the private equity (PE) industry on consumers, workers, and communities. In addition to providing several first-person stories of the havoc wrought by private-equity investment, the […]

Private Equity, Public Damage

How ‘Vulture Investors’ Get Rich Wrecking Companies, Killing Jobs, Endangering the Vulnerable & Spoiling the Environment–And Our Tax Code Helps Them Do It Private equity (PE) firms use money raised from wealthy individuals and institutional investors like pension funds, university endowments, and sovereign wealth funds to take over and manage companies. Once they take control, […]
February 12, 2025   Dear Member of Congress: On behalf of the undersigned organizations collectively representing millions of working people and families all across the United States of America, we write to strongly oppose enacting any tax breaks for the wealthy, large corporations, and/or big businesses, including by extending or expanding the 2017 Tax Cuts […]
Treasury, Commerce, SEC & SBA Nominees Each Worth A Billion or More; Average Worth of Proposed Economic Policy Aides is Over $500 Million; They All Will Work To Get More Tax Cuts for The Wealthy Donald Trump has stacked his proposed economic-policy team with fellow billionaires and other super-rich people who will pursue policies that benefit […]
Apple’s Cook, Open AI’s Altman, Amazon, Google & GM Among Biggest Donors–All Could be Deeply Impacted by GOP Tax Legislation Billionaires and big corporations that will be deeply impacted by Republican tax-and-spending plans are trying to curry favor with the GOP by contributing record sums to Donald Trump’s inauguration festivities. Republicans have made a tax […]
Yesterday marked the seven-year anniversary of the Trump tax legislation. In 2017, when President Trump and his Republican allies in Congress passed the bill, they promised these historic tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans and large corporations would “trickle down” to everyday people through increased wages and a booming economy. Seven years later, billionaire wealth […]