President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown is worrying some of the nation’s blueberry farmers. Bill Mortellite, the third generation of his family to grow blueberries in Hammonton, New Jersey, the self–described “Blueberry Capital of the World,” typically needs about 125 workers to harvest his 240-acre farm. This year, he thinks he will be lucky to find 10…
The IRS is blaming a shrinking budget and a dwindling staff as the reasons why audits of individuals have dropped to their lowest level in 13 years. In fiscal year 2016, just 0.7 percent of individual taxpayers were audited, either in person or by mail, which is the lowest audit rate since 2003, the Associated…
If you owe the IRS a whole lot of tax money, you may lose your ability to travel abroad… if you do absolutely nothing to address the debt. Oh, and if Uncle Sam ever gets around to enforcing that penalty. Back in December 2015, Section 7345 of the tax code went into effect and gave…