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Union Representing IRS Workers Sues Over Trump’s Deal Granting Sweeping Tax Protections
The New York Times • • nation
Key Points:
- The National Treasury Employees Union has filed a revised lawsuit seeking to stop the Trump administration from granting President Trump and his family extraordinary tax protections that exempt them from IRS audits, arguing the provision is illegal.
- This legal action follows an earlier suit aimed at blocking a $1.8 billion fund created to compensate Trump supporters who claimed political prosecutions, which a judge had barred from moving forward in June.
- The union's complaint contends that the tax protections put IRS employees in an untenable position of potentially carrying out unlawful orders by exempting the president, the Trump Organization, and his sons from tax return reviews.
- Democracy Forward, representing the union, called the tax exemption unprecedented and unlawful, emphasizing their commitment to challenging both the tax protections and the previously contested compensation fund.
