While news websites and newspapers continue to review, analyze and publish opinions based on ProPublica's recent and comprehensive research report on the relatively insignificant income taxes certain of Americas wealthiest Americans have been found to be paying, Republican politicians in Washington are, in their own words, "demanding answers," even as IRS commissioner Charles Rettig has assured them and others that the matter is being thoroughly investigated. 

A major analysis of IRS documents by ProPublica – a New York-based, non-profit investigative journalism organization – has shown how some of America's wealthiest and best-known citizens managed to avoid paying almost any federal income taxes between 2014 and 2018.