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Billy Long Promised Huge Tax Refunds. Now Trump Wants Him to Lead the I.R.S.

Since leaving Congress in 2023, Billy Long has peddled a pandemic-era tax credit that the I.R.S. has warned is a magnet for fraud.

Trump Picks Former Representative Billy Long to Lead I.R.S.

Billy Long served six terms as a representative from Missouri. Since then, he has helped businesses claim a pandemic-era tax credit that has been riddled...

Trump Tax Cuts Won’t Help the Economy Grow, Budget Office Finds

A larger debt and higher interest rates would cancel out the boost from keeping individual taxes lower, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office found.

Republicans Ponder: What if the Trump Tax Cuts Cost Nothing?

Some in the party are considering alternative ways of assessing the federal budget as they prepare to extend temporary tax cuts passed in 2017.

Trump Agenda Faces a Fiscal Reckoning

Advisers to President-elect Donald J. Trump and Republicans on Capitol Hill are already looking at ways to scale back some of his more expensive ideas.

Trump Flirts With the Ultimate Tax Cut: No Taxes at All

The former president has repeatedly praised a period in American history when there was no income tax, and the country relied on tariffs to fund...

Trump Tests Republican Appetite for Tax Cuts

Former President Donald J. Trump’s costly tax agenda undermines the changes he signed into law in 2017. Some Republicans are wary.

Trump Keeps the Tax Cut Promises Coming, Now for Americans Abroad

Former President Donald J. Trump said in a statement that he would seek to end the “double taxation” of Americans overseas.

Trump Keeps the Tax Cut Promises Coming, Now for Americans Abroad

Former President Donald J. Trump said in a statement that he would seek to end the “double taxation” of Americans overseas.

How Trump Could Upend Taxation in America

With slogans and in social-media posts, the former president has dribbled out ideas that, together, would fundamentally change how taxes are collected in the U.S.