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A massive trove of tax information obtained by ProPublica, covering thousands of America’s wealthiest individuals, reveals what’s inside the billionaires’ bag of tricks for minimizing their personal tax bills — sometimes to nothing.

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“The Secret IRS Files” won Gold and "The Cutting," a Local Reporting Network project, won Bronze in the Barlett & Steele Awards for Investigative Business Journalism

The Massachusetts Senator and author of Pinkie Promises takes our literary survey. 

ProPublica is an independent, non-profit newsroom that produces investigative journalism in the public interest.

ProPublica has obtained IRS information showing how billionaires like Jeff Bezos and Warren Buffett pay little in income tax compared to their wealth.

A look at the wealthiest Americans’ taxes after ProPublica leaked IRS information shows what Jeff Bezos and the other richest Americans have in common.

“Looks like the biggest tax story of the year, if not the decade.”

The story made waves in Washington, D.C., this week: The Secret IRS Files: Trove of Never-Before-Seen Records Reveal How the Wealthiest Avoid Income Tax. ProPublica obtained private tax data from Americas 25 wealthiest individuals, which revealed exactly how those people manage, through legal means, to pay far less income tax than most Americans — and sometimes, none at all. ProPublica senior editor and reporter Jesse Eisinger explains how it works to NPRs Rachel Martin. After the storys publi...

The designation is ProPublica’s 13th Pulitzer finalist in 13 years of publishing.