Chairman's Report

Senator Whitehouse of Rhode Island has been caught red handed trying to get the IRS to persecute tax exempt groups whose politics the Senator doesn't like. Fortunately, he did not succeed, but the fact that he even tried it is more proof that the as long as the IRS exists, it will be used as a political weapon. There's no way to de-politicize the IRS. We can only abolish it by replacing the income tax with the FAIRtax.

Federal law specifies that data supplied to the government on an income tax return is confidential. It further prescribes that it's a felony to breach that confidentiality by leaking income tax return information. Still, such leaks occur, and it seems that no one is ever punished for it. Now that it appears that the House Ways and Means Committee will be furnished copies of President Trump's tax returns, does anyone really believe they will stay confidential for long? There's only one way to turn this soap opera off--pass the FAIRtax and eliminate tax returns altogether.

This week's Chairman's Report is guest written by Jade Walle, a partner in a CPA firm and a board member of Americans For Fair Taxation. Jade looks at the matter of complexity vs. simplicity in both our election process and our system of taxation.

Some people have concerns about what the transition from the income tax to the FAIRtax would look like. Dr. Karen Walby, research consultant for Americans for Fair Taxation has looked at the issue and outlines the provisions in the FAIRtax legislation for how the transition will be carried out.

It's easy to tell if a mechanic has done a good job fixing your car. It's not so easy to judge a politician's job performance. In this week's Chairman's Report, Steve Hayes shows how passing the FAIRtax will make it easier to tell if your Member of Congress has done a good job and deserves to be rehired for another term.

In this week's Chairman's Report, guest writer Jade Walle looks at five significant ways in which the FAIRtax will benefit the largest portion of our population--those working for a paycheck and receiving a W-2.

Have you ever noticed that when the federal government wants to provide a financial incentive for something, it never comes in the form of a direct incentive payment? Instead, it comes as a federal tax credit. As Steve Hayes explains in this week's Chairman's Report, there's a better way to do it--the FAIRtax.

Diogenes was a Greek philosopher famous for carrying a lantern in search of and honest man. If he could visit today's DC, how long would it take him to find a man or woman who would be truthful about why the DC elites continue to prop up a failed income/payroll tax system? Probably quite a while.

This week's Chairman's Report is a reprint of an article written by economics professor David Kendall. It offers some insightful analysis of why the FAIRtax has languished in Congress for 23 years, and what we FAIRtax advocates must do to eventually get it passed.

People expect federal agencies like the IRS to performs the jobs delegated to them by Congress in a fair and impartial manner consistent with the law. They instinctively understand that no one should receive either favorable or unfavorable treatment based on their ideology or political affiliation. Unfortunately, that's not always the case. The IRS has a long history of being used as a weapon against the political opponents of the party in power. That abuse has to stop, and there's only one way to stop it. Abolish the IRS by passing the FAIRtax.