Bill would tax 100% of money from President's IRS lawsuit settlements.
H.R. 9075 — Tax the Grift Act · Filed by Mark Pocan (D-WI) · Introduced May 29, 2026 · Referred to committee
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What it does
The bill creates a tax on settlement money. Citizens who get payments from a lawsuit the President files against the IRS would owe 100% tax. The settlement money would not count as income. But people would still owe the full tax on it. The bill starts right away if it passes.
Who it affects
Citizens who receive settlement money from a President lawsuit against the IRS would lose all of it. They would get no benefit from the settlement.
One thing to notice
The bill taxes money that is not counted as income. It targets only settlements from the President suing the IRS.
From the analysis of the bill text, linked under Primary records below.
Where it stands
- May 29, 2026 — Introduced · Congress.gov: “Introduced in House”
- May 29, 2026 — Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means · Congress.gov: “Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means”
Dates and quoted wording are Congress.gov's action record; the timeline shows status changes, not every procedural step.
Words to know
- settlement — Money paid to end a lawsuit between two sides.
- IRS — The Internal Revenue Service, the federal agency that collects taxes.
- tax — Money people and companies must pay to the government.
How this was measured
Analysis — Quorum's AI read the bill text published by Congress.gov (1,819 characters) on Jul 5, 2026. Section numbers in the findings refer to that text, linked below; transparency and hidden-provision scores are compared against the median of 14,206 analysed bills.
Status and sponsors — Congress.gov's bill record — actions, committee referrals and cosponsors — loaded nightly. The timeline shows status changes, not every procedural action.
As of — page rendered 2026-09-17.
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