Some links from here and there:
- Anti-tax demonstrators in Ikeja, Lagos defied a government ban, and a police raid on the local Nigerian Bar Association offices, to hold a march. Adeshina Ogunlana, chairman of that Association, told marchers: “Lagosians, don’t be deceived, shine your eyes. Land Use Charge would lead to inflation, increase in rent, increase in cost of transportation, and increase in cost of food. This is why we are encouraging people not to pay Land Use Charge. It must not be allowed to stay.”
- Despite multiple failed attempts to get some new system up and running, this year the IRS will again use a six-decade-old computer program to process tax returns.
- You may have heard some buzz about a bipartisan IRS overhaul bill oozing through Congress. The highlights I’ve heard so far don’t seem amount to much, substance-wise. I suspect it’s really meant as cover for an IRS budget increase. Both parties know that it’s in their interest to boost agency funding so as to keep the gravy train operating, but boosting the IRS budget is poison to Republicans because of how riled up their base got about the Tea Party targeting scandal. Combine a budget boost with “strong reform” to “protect taxpayer rights” though, and they might slip it past the rubes.
- NWTRCC has put out its annual press release about Tax Day Protests and War Tax Redirection Nationwide.
