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Trump’s Proposed External Revenue Service: Extra Costs to Americans and Risk of Oversight Failures

President-elect Donald Trump announced plans to establish the External Revenue Service (ERS), a government agency modeled after the IRS, designed to collect tariffs, duties, and other revenues from foreign nations engaged in trade with the United States. In a recent social media post, Trump characterized the ERS as a way to reduce the tax burden […]