The Bush administration has denied use of public facilities to a group critical of its version of Social Security reform, while using federal resources to pay for propaganda and promotion of its agenda. It refused to allow a women's group to hold a conference on Social Security at the National Archives because they did not have a speaker supporting private accounts. The same week three people were ejected from a federal government supported town hall meeting on Social Security in Colorado because their car had an anti-war bumper sticker.

The National Center for Charitable Statistics (NCCS) is offering free electronic filing for nonprofits that file the annual Form 990 to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) online. The process offers features that make filling out the form easier and helps make it more accurate.

As tax day approached last Friday, there were a number of events in Washington, DC, dedicated to the issue of tax evasion and compliance. There is great concern in Congress and also among tax experts around the country about the detrimental effect the lack of tax compliance has on individual Americans and the broader U.S. economy.

For the third time in four years the House of Representatives passed a bill last week to permanently repeal the estate tax. The irresponsible and dangerous bill (H.R. 8) will cost $290 billion over the next 10 years but hidden within it are astronomically higher costs after the first decade. The House passed H.R. 8, sponsored by Rep. Kenny Hulshof (R-MO), by a vote of 272-162, with 42 Democrats and all but one Republican supporting the bill. The tally showed little change from the last House vote on estate tax repeal. In 2003, a bill passed 264-163, with 41 Democrats supporting it.