Zorka Milin
@zorkamilin.bsky.social
Lawyer and whatnot, tweeting on tax, corruption, climate and energy. Policy director @factcoalition.bsky.social, but own views here. Happy to help. 🌎🌏🌍
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Zorka Milin
@zorkamilin.bsky.social
· Aug 21
Tax professionals aren’t always preparers—sometimes, they are focused on tax policy work. @zorkamilin.bsky.social is a tax attorney for the FACT Coalition—she’s the next tax pro in our Getting To Know You series for @forbes.com.
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Getting To Know You Tuesday: Zorka Milin
Tax professionals aren’t always preparers—sometimes, they are focused on tax policy work. Zorka Milin is a tax attorney for the FACT Coalition.
www.forbes.com
It was such an honor, as well as a lot of fun, to be profiled by the incredible @taxgirl.bsky.social in @forbes.com.
Thank you so much!
Thank you so much!
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A new report from @oilchange.bsky.social finds that the US govt gives the #FossilFuel industry a handout of $34.8 BILLION dollars in subsidies every year — even as everyday people struggle with the cost of living and the climate crisis grows worse & worse.
Read more: oilchange.org/publications...
Read more: oilchange.org/publications...
November 20, 2025 at 7:05 PM
A new report from @oilchange.bsky.social finds that the US govt gives the #FossilFuel industry a handout of $34.8 BILLION dollars in subsidies every year — even as everyday people struggle with the cost of living and the climate crisis grows worse & worse.
Read more: oilchange.org/publications...
Read more: oilchange.org/publications...
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My new opinion piece in @devex.com today. Tax transparency can fuel the fight against climate change. @factcoalition.bsky.social www.devex.com/news/tax-tra...
November 20, 2025 at 8:08 PM
My new opinion piece in @devex.com today. Tax transparency can fuel the fight against climate change. @factcoalition.bsky.social www.devex.com/news/tax-tra...
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New from me: The corporate tax cuts from this year's law are running into a roadblock -- the 2022 corporate minimum tax.
Companies (Meta, Qualcomm) are disclosing billions of dollars in tax breaks they can't use. And there's pressure on Treasury to ease the rules.
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
Companies (Meta, Qualcomm) are disclosing billions of dollars in tax breaks they can't use. And there's pressure on Treasury to ease the rules.
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
Trump’s Tax Cuts Are Exposing Companies to Biden’s Tax Hike
Democrats’ older alternative minimum tax claws back billions of dollars in savings from the newer GOP law.
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November 9, 2025 at 12:14 PM
New from me: The corporate tax cuts from this year's law are running into a roadblock -- the 2022 corporate minimum tax.
Companies (Meta, Qualcomm) are disclosing billions of dollars in tax breaks they can't use. And there's pressure on Treasury to ease the rules.
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
Companies (Meta, Qualcomm) are disclosing billions of dollars in tax breaks they can't use. And there's pressure on Treasury to ease the rules.
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
US government lawyers who are working so hard to make sure millions of poor people starve (even though the law says we should help them):
how do you sleep at night???
how do you sleep at night???
NEW: A federal judge ordered the Trump admin to fund food stamps in full this month. Pretty quickly, DOJ said it would appeal.
Now, millions of poor families are in limbo, and it is not entirely clear if/when they're going to see *any* SNAP payments in Nov.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/u...
Now, millions of poor families are in limbo, and it is not entirely clear if/when they're going to see *any* SNAP payments in Nov.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/u...
Judge Orders Trump Administration to Fully Fund Food Stamps This Month
www.nytimes.com
November 7, 2025 at 3:54 AM
US government lawyers who are working so hard to make sure millions of poor people starve (even though the law says we should help them):
how do you sleep at night???
how do you sleep at night???
This is a very good tax take on Mamdani.
RE NYC Mayor Mamdani's ambitious tax plans: remembering the day when then-Mayor Bloomberg proposed a plastic-bag tax; then as now, NYC tax hikes had to be approved by the state legislature and the leg signaled its disapproval, so Bloomberg backed down.
www.nytimes.com/2008/11/07/n...
www.nytimes.com/2008/11/07/n...
In Mayor’s Plan, the Plastic Bag Will Carry a Fee (Published 2008)
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November 6, 2025 at 1:09 PM
This is a very good tax take on Mamdani.
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With the Supreme Court set to hear oral arguments on tariffs today, a reminder that our tax code still gives breaks to companies for moving profits+jobs overseas. If we're serious about ending offshoring, these America-last policies must end.
thefactcoalition.org/tariffs-manu...
thefactcoalition.org/tariffs-manu...
Step One to Saving Domestic Manufacturing? Stop Giving Tax Breaks for Offshoring
Whether effective or not, tariffs are meant to react to a very real problem: the decades-long collapse of what was once a dynamic U.S. manufacturing base. Our current tax policy has only made that pro...
thefactcoalition.org
November 5, 2025 at 6:15 PM
With the Supreme Court set to hear oral arguments on tariffs today, a reminder that our tax code still gives breaks to companies for moving profits+jobs overseas. If we're serious about ending offshoring, these America-last policies must end.
thefactcoalition.org/tariffs-manu...
thefactcoalition.org/tariffs-manu...
“US hasn’t engaged in international tax community as it should. MNCs should want the US to be in those rooms. US should be a leader, as we were on FATCA, a powerful moment of international tax collaboration. That wasn’t that long ago. We can get that back.” 👏
Danny Werfel at @taxnotes.com conference
Danny Werfel at @taxnotes.com conference
November 5, 2025 at 6:34 PM
“US hasn’t engaged in international tax community as it should. MNCs should want the US to be in those rooms. US should be a leader, as we were on FATCA, a powerful moment of international tax collaboration. That wasn’t that long ago. We can get that back.” 👏
Danny Werfel at @taxnotes.com conference
Danny Werfel at @taxnotes.com conference
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Making multinationals publicly disclose country-by-country reports would boost tax revenues and curb abuse. The UN Framework Convention offers a chance to establish public reporting as a unified standard. @icrict.bsky.social
#UNtaxConvention #TaxJustice2025 bit.ly/taxjustice25
#UNtaxConvention #TaxJustice2025 bit.ly/taxjustice25
November 4, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Making multinationals publicly disclose country-by-country reports would boost tax revenues and curb abuse. The UN Framework Convention offers a chance to establish public reporting as a unified standard. @icrict.bsky.social
#UNtaxConvention #TaxJustice2025 bit.ly/taxjustice25
#UNtaxConvention #TaxJustice2025 bit.ly/taxjustice25
Thanks @mindthegaap.bsky.social, @itep.org for kind words about our new @factcoalition.bsky.social report.
And the Oscar for best take on an obscure oil tax break: "This is roughly the equivalent of the IRS letting you count your parking tickets as an income tax payment."
itep.org/oil-gas-comp...
And the Oscar for best take on an obscure oil tax break: "This is roughly the equivalent of the IRS letting you count your parking tickets as an income tax payment."
itep.org/oil-gas-comp...
Oil and Gas Companies Are Paying Less Tax to the U.S. than to Foreign Governments
Since 2017, these companies paid $135 billion in income taxes to foreign governments, but just $29 billion to the U.S.
itep.org
November 3, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Thanks @mindthegaap.bsky.social, @itep.org for kind words about our new @factcoalition.bsky.social report.
And the Oscar for best take on an obscure oil tax break: "This is roughly the equivalent of the IRS letting you count your parking tickets as an income tax payment."
itep.org/oil-gas-comp...
And the Oscar for best take on an obscure oil tax break: "This is roughly the equivalent of the IRS letting you count your parking tickets as an income tax payment."
itep.org/oil-gas-comp...
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Trump is giving lots of money away to his billionaire buddies but it’s nice to see that the corporate minimum tax is taking a little bite back from Meta for the rest of us.
Biden Tax Reforms Take a $16 Billion Bite Out of Trump’s Big Tax Giveaway to Meta
Meta’s earnings setback is entirely attributable to an important tax reform championed by the Biden administration in 2022.
itep.org
October 31, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Trump is giving lots of money away to his billionaire buddies but it’s nice to see that the corporate minimum tax is taking a little bite back from Meta for the rest of us.
"Meta’s recent earnings report is an important reminder that despite the Trump administration’s efforts, important reforms put in place by the Biden administration are preventing the worst abuses of our corporate tax laws."
Posted on Bloomberg Tax this morning: media folks, please stop reporting that Meta's $16 Billion tax hit on quarterly earnings is due to the Trump tax law. It's entirely a product of the Biden-era corporate minimum tax, and it's a big win for the rest of us.
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news.bloombergtax.com/daily-tax-re...
Trump Meta Tax Giveaway $16 Billion Less Thanks to Biden-Era Law
Opinion: Meta's $16 billion earnings setback is entirely attributable to an important tax reform championed by the Biden administration in 2022.
news.bloombergtax.com
October 31, 2025 at 4:17 PM
"Meta’s recent earnings report is an important reminder that despite the Trump administration’s efforts, important reforms put in place by the Biden administration are preventing the worst abuses of our corporate tax laws."
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"Truly self-destructive, offering none of the nationalist upside but all of the global downside." New @opinion.bloomberg.com @markgongloff.bsky.social column on the absurd oil subsidies handed out by the U.S. highlighted in the new @factcoalition.bsky.social report. www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
October 29, 2025 at 7:57 PM
"Truly self-destructive, offering none of the nationalist upside but all of the global downside." New @opinion.bloomberg.com @markgongloff.bsky.social column on the absurd oil subsidies handed out by the U.S. highlighted in the new @factcoalition.bsky.social report. www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
Back in July, we @factcoalition.bsky.social described the big tax bill as a $170B tax cut for big multinational corporations.
It now turns out, it's actually even more gigantic: a whopping $276 BILLION tax cut.
It now turns out, it's actually even more gigantic: a whopping $276 BILLION tax cut.
New from FACT Coalition - More America Last than America First. Our latest policy brief analyzes the HUGE tax cut for America’s largest corporations in the just passed reconciliation bill, costing nearly $170 billion in public revenues over the coming decade. thefactcoalition.org/policy-brief...
October 29, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Back in July, we @factcoalition.bsky.social described the big tax bill as a $170B tax cut for big multinational corporations.
It now turns out, it's actually even more gigantic: a whopping $276 BILLION tax cut.
It now turns out, it's actually even more gigantic: a whopping $276 BILLION tax cut.
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Giving $7.5B in tax breaks to oil companies to pump overseas offers all of the global downside & none of the (bogus) domestic upside of oil subsidies. Truly self-destructive
Gift link to my column for @opinion.bloomberg.com
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Gift link to my column for @opinion.bloomberg.com
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Oil Subsidies Are Bad. Exporting $7.5 Billion of Them Is Worse.
Giving fossil-fuel companies billions of dollars in tax breaks to pump the oil and gas heating up the planet is a terrible idea, but I guess you could argue it might at least create US jobs — unless y...
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October 29, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Giving $7.5B in tax breaks to oil companies to pump overseas offers all of the global downside & none of the (bogus) domestic upside of oil subsidies. Truly self-destructive
Gift link to my column for @opinion.bloomberg.com
www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
Gift link to my column for @opinion.bloomberg.com
www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
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Latest tariff news is of a pattern with private donations for the WH ballroom, seizing a stake in Intel and the politicization at IRS.
Trump is trying to replace the legislated system of taxation for revenue with an arbitrary, personal system of state exactions.
Trump is trying to replace the legislated system of taxation for revenue with an arbitrary, personal system of state exactions.
Trump says he’s increasing tariffs on Canada by 10% after Ontario’s Reagan ad | CNN Business
President Donald Trump said Saturday he is increasing the tariff on Canada by 10% over current levels, further escalating trade tensions over what he called a “fake” ad that featured parts of an anti-...
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October 25, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Latest tariff news is of a pattern with private donations for the WH ballroom, seizing a stake in Intel and the politicization at IRS.
Trump is trying to replace the legislated system of taxation for revenue with an arbitrary, personal system of state exactions.
Trump is trying to replace the legislated system of taxation for revenue with an arbitrary, personal system of state exactions.
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Great coverage from @barrons.com of our new report, which finds that loopholes and subsidies in the U.S. tax code encourage companies to drill overseas. The loopholes that allow this must end, for the sake of our climate, health, and economy.
www.barrons.com/news/us-oil-...
www.barrons.com/news/us-oil-...
US Oil Giants Produce Mainly At Home But Send More Tax Dollars Overseas
US fossil fuel giants produce most of their oil and gas domestically but pay billions more in taxes overseas than they do at home because of subsidies that have only grown during President Donald Trum...
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October 24, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Great coverage from @barrons.com of our new report, which finds that loopholes and subsidies in the U.S. tax code encourage companies to drill overseas. The loopholes that allow this must end, for the sake of our climate, health, and economy.
www.barrons.com/news/us-oil-...
www.barrons.com/news/us-oil-...
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"To address climate change, economic equity and fairness, and funding the social programs, we must repeal all the special tax breaks the oil and gas sector receives and ensure that they are paying tax rates [equal] with what they are paying globally.” - @erichpica.bsky.social of @foeus.bsky.social
October 23, 2025 at 7:25 PM
"To address climate change, economic equity and fairness, and funding the social programs, we must repeal all the special tax breaks the oil and gas sector receives and ensure that they are paying tax rates [equal] with what they are paying globally.” - @erichpica.bsky.social of @foeus.bsky.social
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Taxpayers should not have to subsidize the production of oil and gas abroad. FACT's latest report analyzes the tax disclosures of 11 U.S. oil and gas multinationals and calls for the end of the tax breaks that undermine U.S. interests and harm the planet.
thefactcoalition.org/report/oil-a...
thefactcoalition.org/report/oil-a...
Report: How U.S. Tax Policy Subsidizes Oil and Gas Extraction Abroad
Read FACT’s latest report analyzing the public filings of 11 U.S. multinational oil and gas companies, and breaking down the substantial tax subsidies that inform the industry’s low average tax rates ...
thefactcoalition.org
October 23, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Taxpayers should not have to subsidize the production of oil and gas abroad. FACT's latest report analyzes the tax disclosures of 11 U.S. oil and gas multinationals and calls for the end of the tax breaks that undermine U.S. interests and harm the planet.
thefactcoalition.org/report/oil-a...
thefactcoalition.org/report/oil-a...
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Launch day! The FACT Coalition's Zorka Milin shares the findings from our latest report. America-Last and Planet-Last: How U.S. Tax Policy Subsidizes Oil and Gas Extraction Abroad. Read it now! @zorkamilin.bsky.social @factcoalition.bsky.social thefactcoalition.org/oil-and-gas-...
October 23, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Launch day! The FACT Coalition's Zorka Milin shares the findings from our latest report. America-Last and Planet-Last: How U.S. Tax Policy Subsidizes Oil and Gas Extraction Abroad. Read it now! @zorkamilin.bsky.social @factcoalition.bsky.social thefactcoalition.org/oil-and-gas-...
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MAMDANI, on Bill Ackman:
“.. He's spending more money against me than I would even tax him!"
@casestudyqb.bsky.social #NYC
“.. He's spending more money against me than I would even tax him!"
@casestudyqb.bsky.social #NYC
October 23, 2025 at 1:59 PM
MAMDANI, on Bill Ackman:
“.. He's spending more money against me than I would even tax him!"
@casestudyqb.bsky.social #NYC
“.. He's spending more money against me than I would even tax him!"
@casestudyqb.bsky.social #NYC
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On Thursday, FACT will host @whitehouse.senate.gov , @erichpica.bsky.social of @friends-earth.bsky.social and @mindthegaap.bsky.social + @amyhanauer.bsky.social of @itep.org for the launch of our new report. Register now to attend in-person or online:
thefactcoalition.org/report-launc...
thefactcoalition.org/report-launc...
Report Launch: “How US Tax Policy Subsidizes Oil and Gas Extraction Abroad”
Register now for the in-person and online launch of FACT’s new report analyzing the tax disclosures of 11 U.S. oil and gas multinational companies, and calling for the elimination of harmful subsidies...
thefactcoalition.org
October 21, 2025 at 2:12 PM
On Thursday, FACT will host @whitehouse.senate.gov , @erichpica.bsky.social of @friends-earth.bsky.social and @mindthegaap.bsky.social + @amyhanauer.bsky.social of @itep.org for the launch of our new report. Register now to attend in-person or online:
thefactcoalition.org/report-launc...
thefactcoalition.org/report-launc...
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RSVP today. If you are in DC, join us Thursday for lunch and an all-star panel. thefactcoalition.org/report-launc...
This Thursday, join FACT for the hybrid launch of our new report analyzing the financial disclosures of 11 U.S. oil and gas multinational companies, and calling for the elimination of subsidies for offshore drilling.
Register now:
thefactcoalition.org/report-launc...
Register now:
thefactcoalition.org/report-launc...
Report Launch: “How US Tax Policy Subsidizes Oil and Gas Extraction Abroad”
Register now for the in-person and online launch of FACT’s new report analyzing the tax disclosures of 11 U.S. oil and gas multinational companies, and calling for the elimination of harmful subsidies...
thefactcoalition.org
October 20, 2025 at 4:39 PM
RSVP today. If you are in DC, join us Thursday for lunch and an all-star panel. thefactcoalition.org/report-launc...
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NEW - FACT Coalition's latest newsletter. Read more from the frontlines in the fight against dirty money and for tax justice! @factcoalition.bsky.social thefactcoalition.org/fact-holds-e...
Just the FACTs 10/17/25
“Just the FACTs” is a round-up of news stories and information regarding efforts to combat corrupt financial practices, including offshore tax haven abuses, corporate secrecy, and money laundering thr...
thefactcoalition.org
October 17, 2025 at 8:17 PM
NEW - FACT Coalition's latest newsletter. Read more from the frontlines in the fight against dirty money and for tax justice! @factcoalition.bsky.social thefactcoalition.org/fact-holds-e...
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NEW speakers - Sen. Whitehouse, Erich Pica - Friends of the Earth, @amyhanauer.bsky.social - Institute for Tax and Economic Policy, and more! Join us Oct. 23. thefactcoalition.org/report-launc...
October 17, 2025 at 2:11 PM
NEW speakers - Sen. Whitehouse, Erich Pica - Friends of the Earth, @amyhanauer.bsky.social - Institute for Tax and Economic Policy, and more! Join us Oct. 23. thefactcoalition.org/report-launc...