IRS Employees Were Caught Using ChatGPT — and It’s a Problem, Watchdog Says The IRS isn’t exactly known for its use of cutting-edge technology. The federal agency still accepts paper tax returns and can take years to send delayed tax refunds. Yet the IRS has enough artificial ... 11/30/2024 - 4:00 am | View Link
IRS Unveils New Policy to Fast-Track Tax Refunds and Combat Identity Theft with IP PIN Requirement The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has announced a significant policy change designed to streamline the process for taxpayers filing returns with duplicate dependents while enhancing protections ... 11/30/2024 - 12:21 am | View Link
IRS Alerts Taxpayers to 2024 PIN Deadline The Internal Revenue Service ( IRS) is encouraging taxpayers who plan to file their 2024 tax returns early in 2025 to secure their Identity Protection Personal Identification Number (IP PIN) before ... 11/22/2024 - 9:28 am | View Link
IRS issues warning to prevent refund delays: These taxpayers should sign up for ID protection program American taxpayers with dependents who have already been claimed on another taxpayer’s return should sign up for an identity protection program ahead of tax season to avoid refund delays with e-filing ... 11/22/2024 - 8:13 am | View Link
IRS will accept duplicate dependent returns submitted with an IP PIN Beginning with the 2025 filing season, the IRS will accept Forms 1040, 1040-NR and 1040-SS even if a dependent has already been claimed on a previously filed return if the primary taxpayer on the ... 11/21/2024 - 8:37 am | View Link
Trump’s nominee to run the DEA has withdrawn from consideration after MAGAt lawmakers objected to him (you'll love this) for enforcing COVID restrictions seriously during the height of the pandemic in 2020. Via HuffPost:
Hillsborough County Sheriff Chad Chronister, a Florida Republican, said in a statement Tuesday that he had decided to drop out after the “gravity of this very important responsibility set in.”
“To have been nominated to serve as Administrator of the Drug Enforcement Administration is the honor of a lifetime,” Chronister said in a statement.
I don’t know why any Democrat would allow President Joe Biden’s pardon of son Hunter to turn into any kind of controversy. Even if they disagree with the decision, any media discussion about it only distracts from the cabinet of unqualified horrors Trump wants to put in charge of life-and-death departments.
As we know, Pete Hegseth has some big problems with his nomination to head up the Defense Department, what with the out-of-control drinking, a rape accusation, and financial mismanagement that left his veterans organization broke. Things are so bad, they're doing an interview today (on Fox News. Not like a real interview!) to try to rescue his nomination.
Above, Kon Kan performs, I Beg Your Pardon. Yeah, we have something to say about Our Failed Political Press ™ and the Puritopians' latest obsession.
Lucien Truscott asks, High Road? What fucking high road?"
No More Mister Nice Blog ties the pardon to the Hegseth nomination and concludes they are related in a way.
Juanita Jean's wants to get out the flame thrower.
Notus wants to know what about everyone else's pardons.
Bonus Track: Colossal has photographs from the Northern Lights Photography contest.
The media is currently clutching its pearls over President Joe Biden’s decision to pardon his son, Hunter, saying President-elect Donald Trump will use Biden’s act of clemency to justify bad pardons once he takes office again.
Politico declared Biden’s pardon “a rich gift to those who want to blow up the justice system as we know it,” while The New York Times said Biden’s act “will inevitably muddy the political waters as Mr.