During his 2016 campaign and throughout his time in office, President Donald Trump has repeatedly made promises to "drain the swamp." The phrase signaled to many a desire to change Washington's widely maligned political culture.

President Trump's tax returns are back in the spotlight ahead of Tuesday night's debate, where he'll face off against Democratic nominee Joe Biden for the first time.

The public's perception of the Internal Revenue Service as a nonpartisan, disinterested organization concerned solely with administering the country's tax laws was potentially damaged Sunday night as reporting showed President Donald Trump may have received preferential treatment from the agency.

Americans who aren’t required to file a federal income tax return may qualify for stimulus checks that were approved as part of the government’s COVID-19 relief package passed earlier this year.

Francine J. Lipman, a law professor at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, talks with Darrick Hamilton, a stratification economist and the New School’s incoming Henry Cohen Professor of Economics and Urban Policy, about the intersection of U.S. tax policy and racial wealth inequality.

What might an “anti-racist” tax system look like? While those in the critical tax space have asked this question for some time, it seems that a larger community of tax legal scholars have more recently awakened to the importance of such considerations, sparked by the murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and others at the hands of police officers.

IRS data on racial disparities in the laws it administers remains conspicuously absent, but the effort to change that is starting to gain traction.

The debate over stimulus checks is playing out in Congress, but it impacts thousands in South Carolina.