5 tax scams in 2025 and how to avoid them

5 tax scams in 2025 and how to avoid them

Every tax season, scammers ramp up efforts to steal taxpayers’ identities, data or refunds. These con artists take advantage of people’s anxiety and confusion about filing their tax returns. In 2024, the IRS received nearly 300,000 reports of identity theft, which the agency estimates led to $5.5 billion in tax …

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Trump Eyes a Bigger, Better Trade Deal With China

Trump Eyes a Bigger, Better Trade Deal With China

During the Biden administration, Donald J. Trump would sit in his mirrored and gold-trimmed salon at Mar-a-Lago where he had once hosted China’s leader, Xi Jinping, brooding to visitors about the outcome of the trade agreement he signed with China in 2020. Mr. Trump would castigate “stupid people” in the …

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U.S. Marines Start to Leave Japan, Decades Behind Schedule

U.S. Marines Start to Leave Japan, Decades Behind Schedule

Before Christmas, a contingent of 105 U.S. Marines who would have been sent to Okinawa were redirected to a new base on the United States territory of Guam instead. The small reshuffling marked a major milestone: This was the first time the Marines cut their head count on Okinawa as …

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