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1 week ago | 
telegraphindia.com | Andrew Duehren |Maggie Haberman |Alan Blinder
Harvard stopped short of explicitly pledging a legal challenge to a revocation of its tax status, a change that would upend the university’s finances Andrew Duehren, Maggie Haberman, Alan Blinder Published 04.05.25, 06:39 AM Students on the campus of Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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1 week ago | 
telegraphindia.com | Andrew Duehren |Maggie Haberman
It was not immediately clear if the IRS was in fact moving forward with revoking Harvard’s tax-exempt status, a change that could only typically occur after a lengthy process Andrew Duehren, Maggie Haberman Published 03.05.25, 07:59 AM A woman walks on the campus of Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts.(Reuters file picture) President Donald Trump said on Friday that Harvard would lose its tax-exempt status, repeating his intent to enlist the Internal Revenue Service in his feud...
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1 week ago | 
thenewstribune.com | Andrew Duehren |Maggie Haberman |Alan Blinder
President Donald Trump claimed on May 2 that Harvard would lose its tax-exempt status. Federal law prohibits the president from directing the IRS to conduct tax investigations.
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1 week ago | 
nytimes.com | Andrew Duehren |Maggie Haberman |Alan Blinder
President Trump said on Friday that Harvard would lose its tax-exempt status, repeating his intent to enlist the Internal Revenue Service in his feud with the wealthy research university and upend the school's finances. "We are going to be taking away Harvard's Tax Exempt Status. It's what they deserve!" Mr. Trump wrote on social media.
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2 weeks ago | 
pressdemocrat.com | Kenneth Vogel |Andrew Duehren
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Wednesday pardoned a Florida health care executive whose mother played a role in trying to expose the contents of Ashley Biden’s diary. The pardon of the executive, Paul Walczak, was signed privately and posted on the Justice Department’s website Friday.
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2 weeks ago | 
nytimes.com | Kenneth Vogel |Andrew Duehren
The pardon of Paul Walczak, who had been convicted of tax crimes, comes as the president uses clemency to reward allies and swipe at perceived enemies. President Trump on Wednesday pardoned a Florida health care executive whose mother played a role in trying to expose the contents of Ashley Biden's diary. The pardon of the executive, Paul Walczak, was signed privately and posted on the Justice Department's website on Friday.
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3 weeks ago | 
straitstimes.com | Jonathan Swan |Andrew Duehren |Alan Rappeport |Maggie Haberman
WASHINGTON – US President Donald Trump has replaced the acting commissioner of the IRS after his appointment just days earlier set off a power struggle between Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and billionaire Elon Musk, five people with knowledge of the change said April 18. Mr Bessent’s deputy, Michael Faulkender, will be the new acting leader, replacing Mr Gary Shapley, the Treasury Department confirmed on April 18. Mr Faulkender will be the third acting leader of the agency this week.
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3 weeks ago | 
post-gazette.com | Jacob Bogage |Jonathan Swan |Shannon Najmabadi |Michael Kunzelman |Andrew Duehren |Alan Rappeport | +1 more
WASHINGTON — The acting commissioner of the IRS is being replaced after Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent complained to President Donald Trump that the latest leader of the agency had been installed without his knowledge and at the behest of billionaire Elon Musk, according to five people with knowledge of the change and the sensitive discussions that precipitated it.
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3 weeks ago | 
nytimes.com | Jonathan Swan |Andrew Duehren |Alan Rappeport |Maggie Haberman
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent complained to President Trump that the acting commissioner had been installed without his knowledge.
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3 weeks ago | 
nytimes.com | Andrew Duehren |Alan Rappeport |Russ Buettner
Since the post-Nixon era, the Internal Revenue Service has had a degree of independence from the White House. President Trump is seeking to change that. In the years after President Richard Nixon enlisted the Internal Revenue Service to investigate his political opponents, Congress passed a series of laws to make sure the agency would focus on collecting taxes and not use its vast powers to carry out political vendettas.
