Targeting Overseas Tax Shelters

Last week, a group of tech leaders called for putting guardrails on artificial intelligence. This week, these calls have been met by backlash from tech executives, lawmakers and President Trump, who liken those ringing the alarm to a doomsday cult.Cade Metz, a technology reporter ...  Show more

About a month into the war with Iran, we spoke with Cameron Joudi, who owns a gas station in Florida, about how the conflict was reaching him at home. He recently reached out after seeing a 20-cent spike in gas prices in the span of just 24 hours.Vivian Nereim, the Gulf bureau ch ...  Show more

In the January 2017 Taxcast we look at tax justice and public procurement - the efforts to hit tax dodging companies where it really hurts on a local level – trying to stop them bidding for public money for public contracts. Also:

Democrats in Washington are proposing $2 trillion in tax increases and other changes to how Americans are taxed on things like cryptocurrencies, retirement savings and stock sales. WSJ tax reporter Laura Saunders joins host J.R. Whalen with ways people can make adjustments to the ...  Show more

Republicans slam the Biden administration for not doing enough to help Ukraine despite overlooking one major detail. Brian interviews Senator Tammy Duckworth about the prospect of Putin using nuclear weapons, the bill to impose a windfall tax on oil companies, and finally remo ...

Ah, Tax Day — a time when our relationship with the United States government can get a little strained, in part because the U.S. system for filing taxes can feel pretty antiquated. But now the Internal Revenue Service has a plan to improve that, thanks to an additional $80 billio ...  Show more